Results 11 to 20 of about 3,374 (240)

Upper Palaeolithic site probability in Lower Austria – a geoarchaeological multi-factor approach

Journal of Maps, 2022
In archaeology, predictive models play a key role in understanding the interactions between humans and the palaeo-environment. They are also of great value for cultural heritage management and planning purposes. This is particularly true for Palaeolithic
Bruno Boemke, Thomas Einwögerer, Marc Händel, Frank Lehmkuhl   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Curtis Runnels, Duncan Howitt-Marshall, Evangelos Sachperoglou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transition et temporalité

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
doaj   +1 more source

Palaeolithic occupation of the Mehran Plain in Southwestern Iran

Documenta Praehistorica, 2012
In terms of Palaeolithic studies, the Mehran Plain is already known due to the discovery of the Amar Merdeg site in 1999. But in spite of the high potential for occupation in different periods, the prehistoric settlement patterns of the plain had not ...
Hojjat Darabi, Ardeshir Javanmardzadeh, Amir Beshkani, Mana Jami-Alahmadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The dawn of the Middle Palaeolithic in western Central Asia: Sel'Ungur Cave in Kyrgyztan

UISPP Journal, 2021
The Sel’Ungur Cave plays a crucial role in our understanding of the initial occupation of Central Asia. During the field campaign of 2014-1016, the techno-complex characterized by the non-Levallois flake knapping and a production of plano-convex bifaces ...
Andrey Krivoshapkin, Bence Viola, Temerlan Chargynov, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Magdalena Krajcarz, Stanisław Fedorowicz, Vladimir Olenchenko, Leonid Tsibizov, Svetlana Shnaider, Kseniya Kolobova   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Lower Palaeolithic assemblage of Medzhibozh 1 layer III (Ukraine) and its palaeoenvironmental context

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
The main focus of this paper is to present the stone assemblage of one of the Lower Palaeolithic layers of Medzhibozh 1. Detailed typological and technological characteristics of the stone industry of layer III of the locality Medzhibozh 1 are given ...
Stepanchuk, V., Ryzhov, S., Veklych, Y., Naumenko, O., Matviishyna, Z., Karmazynenko, S.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trente ans après Leroi-Gourhan, où en sont les paléolithiciens ?

Archéopages, 2008
Archaeologists specialising in the Palaeolithic owe Leroi-Gourhan many methodological advances, and the questions he raised are constantly being re-examined and broadened by prehistorians.
Françoise Audouze
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Handaxes: Investigating Lower Palaeolithic Cultural Variability in South-East India

, 2022
International audienceHere, we present the results of recent investigations into spatio-temporal variability in Lower Palaeolithic technologies in India.
Gunnell, Yanni, Singhvi, Ashok Kumar, Premathilake, Rathnasiri, Prasad, Srinivasan, Sahnouni, Mohamed, Parés, Josep María, Pappu, Shanti, Akhilesh, Kumar, Joshi, Prachi, Abdessadok, Salah, Anupama, Krishnamurthy, Duval, Mathieu, Chauhan, Naveen   +12 more
core   +6 more sources

The influence of the geological–geomorphological setting on human settlements and historical urban development: the case study of Isernia (southern Italy)

Journal of Maps, 2021
The map is aimed at illustrating the relationships between landscape evolution and human occupation in the Isernia basin since the Middle Pleistocene. We carried out a detail scale geological–geomorphological investigation integrated with archaeological ...
Pietro P. C. Aucelli, Ettore Valente, Gianluigi Di Paola, Vincenzo Amato, Massimo Cesarano, Marilena Cozzolino, Gerardo Pappone, Vittoria Scorpio, Carmen M. Rosskopf   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated chronological control on an archaeologically significant Pleistocene river terrace sequence: the Thames-Medway, eastern Essex, England [PDF]

, 2012
Late Middle Pleistocene Thames-Medway deposits in eastern Essex comprise both large expanses of Palaeolithic artefact-bearing river sands/gravels and deep channels infilled with thick sequences of fossiliferous fine-grained estuarine sediments that yield
J.E. Whittaker, Penkman, K. E. H., Whittaker, J. E., Preece, R.C., Whitaker, J.E., J.-L. Schwenninger, Schwenninger, J-L, Wenban-Smith, F. F., Briant, R.M., Roe, H. M., Roe, H.M., Whittaker, J.E., Schwenninger, J-L., Schwenninger, J.L., H.M. Roe, Preece, R. C., Kilfeather, A.A., Parfitt, S., R.M. Briant, Kilfeather, A. A., R.C. Preece, S. Parfitt, Wenban-Smith, F.F., A.A. Kilfeather, Penkman, K.E.H., Briant, Rebecca M., Briant, R. M., K.E.H. Penkman, F.F. Wenban-Smith   +28 more
core   +1 more source