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Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years

Humanities, 2019
The important discoveries of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts in stratigraphical context within Lower and early Middle Pleistocene deposits in the western continental part of Europe along the rift systeme of the Rhine Valley are pointing at the possible ...
Lutz Fiedler, Christian Humburg, Horst Klingelhöfer, Sebastian Stoll, Manfred Stoll   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Edge Sharpness Does Not Vary Between Palaeolithic Flake Technologies, With the Possible Exception of Levallois Débitage

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Investigating why hominins adopted particular flake technologies during the Mid‐to‐Late Pleistocene is essential to understanding patterns of lithic innovation. This period witnessed the emergence of Levallois technologies (~350–250 ka) and later blades, each “replacing” earlier forms.
Anna Mika, Alastair Key
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Palaeolithic Imprints: Spatial Analysis of Hand Stencils in El Castillo Cave (Spain) Through Geomatic Techniques

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present the application of a new quantitative approach to space study in Palaeolithic cave art. Using GIS, we analysed the distribution and position of hand stencils in El Castillo cave to track the gestures and behaviours of Palaeolithic societies.
Olga Spaey, Iñaki Intxaurbe, Iñigo Urrestarazu‐Porta, Martin Arriolabengoa, Sergio Salazar, Verónica Fernández‐Navarro, Aritz Irurtzun, Diego Garate   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions

, 2019
North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
core   +1 more source

Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia

, 2020
The interplay between Pleistocene climatic variability and hominin adaptations to diverse terrestrial ecosystems is a key topic in human evolutionary studies.
Deng, C., Petraglia, M., Wang, F., Xie, F., Yang, S., Yue, J., Zhu, R.   +6 more
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Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation

Boreas, EarlyView.
The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Malte Hoffmann, Tobias Lauer, Utz Böhner, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Admixture Correction in the Outgroup-f3 Statistic [PDF]

, 2018
Genetic inheritance can be studied within a purely genetic scope. However, this eliminates part of the picture. The field of genetics is often thought of as a natural science with little in common with fields of social science. However, in human genetics
Tunga, Nita
core   +1 more source

Species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Aves, Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene—a review

Boreas, EarlyView.
This study investigates the species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe, specifically within the territory of present‐day Ukraine, during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The research is based on the comprehensive revision of skeletal remains found at archaeological sites.
Leonid Gorobets, Tyt Volynskyi, Mykola Knysh, Oleksandr Kovalchuk   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A revised terrace stratigraphy and chronology for the Little Ouse River as a framework for interpreting the late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic of central East Anglia, UK

Quaternary Environments and Humans
The Breckland of central East Anglia has a Pleistocene geological sequence spanning c. 1 million years, providing a framework for assessing changes in human technology and behaviour within a single changing palaeolandscape.
Rob Davis, Simon G. Lewis, Marcus Hatch, Nick Ashton, Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Luke Dale, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Mark White   +9 more
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Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at Elveden, Suffolk, UK

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2005
The Lower Palaeolithic site at Elveden, Suffolk, was the subject of new excavations from 1995–1999. Excavations around the edge and in the centre of the former clay-pit revealed sediments infilling a lake basin that had formed in Lowestoft till, overlying Chalk, the till being attributed to the Anglian glaciation (MIS 12).
Ashton, N., Lewis, S., Parfitt, S., Candy, I., Keen, D., Kemp, R., Penkman, K., Thomas, G., Whittaker, J., White, M. J.   +9 more
openaire   +2 more sources