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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
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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
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'Fire hardening' spear wood does slightly harden it, but makes it much weaker and more brittle [PDF]

, 2016
It is usually assumed that 'fire hardening' the tips of spears, as practised by hunter-gatherers and early Homo spp., makes them harder and better suited for hunting.
Chan, Tak Lok, Ennos, Antony Roland
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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
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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
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]

, 2009
It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Early evidence of stone tool use in bone working activities at Qesem Cave, Israel [PDF]

, 2016
For a long while, the controversy surrounding several bone tools coming from pre-Upper Palaeolithic contexts favoured the view of Homo sapiens as the only species of the genus Homo capable of modifying animal bones into specialised tools.
Barkai, Ran, Blasco, Ruth, CRISTIANI, Emanuela, Gopher, Avi, LEMORINI, Cristina, Nunziante Cesaro, Stella, Rosell, Jordi, VENDITTI, FLAVIA, Zupancich, Andrea   +8 more
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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
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The Lower Palaeolithic in Asturias [PDF]

, 2000
En Asturias el paleolítico Antiguo en el que se incluyen las culturas achelense y musteriense se encuentra representado en varios conjuntos repartidos por toda la geografía regional y de manera fundamental en la Rasa litoral y en las terrazas fluviales ...
Rodríguez Asensio, José Adolfo
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Terrestrial implications for the maritime geoarchaeological resource: A view from the Lower Palaeolithic [PDF]

, 2007
Stone tools and faunal remains have been recovered from the English Channel and the North Sea through trawling, dredging for aggregates, channel clearance, and coring.
A Tuffreau, A Velegrakis, AJ Howard, AS Murray, AS Murray, B Hack, B Werz, CS Gamble, D Maddy, D Maddy, D Mol, DA Roe, DC Schreve, DC Schreve, DR Bridgland, DR Bridgland, DR Bridgland, DR Bridgland, DR Bridgland, DR Bridgland, DS Kaufman, EM Durrance, FF Wenban-Smith, G Lericolais, GA Sykes, GAT Duller, H Breuil, H Breuil, H Yoshida, J Huissteden Van, J Rose, J Vandenberghe, J Vandenberghe, J Vandenberghe, J Vandenberghe, J Wallinga, J Wallinga, J-Y Reynaud, JC Chambers, JJ Wymer, JJ Wymer, KJ Thomsen, LBM Verhart, LG Allen, M Drees, M White, MD Bateman, MR Bates, MR Bates, N Agersnap-Larsen, N Ashton, N Stern, N Stern, NM Ashton, P Antoine, PL Gibbard, PL Gibbard, RF Galbraith, RJO Hamblin, RM Bailey, RM Bailey, RM Briant, Robert Hosfield, RT Hosfield, RT Hosfield, S Stokes, SA Parfitt, SG Lewis, TDJ Cameron, TDJ Cameron, TDJ Cameron, W Roebroeks   +71 more
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