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The British Lower Palaeolithic of the early Middle Pleistocene [PDF]
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 The archaeology of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene (MIS 19–12) is represented by a number of key sites across eastern and southern England. These sites include Pakefield, Happisburgh 1, High Lodge, Warren Hill, Waverley Wood, Boxgrove, Kent's Cavern, and Westbury-sub-Mendip, alongside a ‘background scatter’ lithic record associated with the
Hosfield, Rob
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Behaviour and cognition in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: introduction [PDF]
, 2004 Francis Wenban‐Smith
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On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean 'Giant' Handaxe from the Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent
Internet Archaeology, 2023 This article presents initial results from excavations at Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, which produced several handaxes, two of which can be classed as 'giant handaxes'.
Letty Ingrey +4 more
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4E cognition in the Lower Palaeolithic [PDF]
Adaptive Behavior, 2020 This essay introduces a special issue focused on 4E cognition (cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) in the Lower Palaeolithic. In it, we review the typological and representational cognitive approaches that have dominated the past 50 years of paleoanthropology.
Thomas Wynn +2 more
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Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2020 The transition from the Lower to the Middle Palaeolithic is a key period in Prehistory, characterized by numerous changes in the subsistence and production patterns of human groups.
Cyrielle Mathias, Marie-Hélène Moncel
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La détection des sites de la Préhistoire ancienne en Hauts-de-France
Archéopages, 2022 The detection of Palaeolithic sites in preventive archaeology is surely one of the recurrent methodological issues of these last thirty years. The unearthing of the Seclin and Biache-Saint-Vaast deposits have marked the history of the discipline by ...
Émilie Goval, Jean-Luc Locht
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The role of vision during Lower Palaeolithic tool-making [PDF]
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2022 Stone tools are the result of goal-oriented actions involving cognitive processes. Because visual attention is a requirement in accurate tool-making, visual exploration can provide information about the relationship between perception and technological evolution.
María Silva-Gago +3 more
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]
, 2018 Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
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New evidence for the Palaeolithic in Attica, Greece
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2018 Despite Greece’s key geographic position between southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and its potential for documenting hominin dispersals, Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites are rare.
Justin Allen Holcomb +3 more
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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]
, 2017 The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha +21 more
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