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The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

Foreword

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2007
There is rather a special flavour to research into the Mesolithic period. Immersing ourselves in the study of dynamic, mobile communities facing ever changing environments, with interpretations resting on sparse, rather unimpressive evidence brings a ...
Penny Spikins
doaj   +1 more source

125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arran pitchstone (Scottish volcanic glass): New dating evidence

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2015
In the present paper, the author offers new absolute and contextual dating evidence for Scottish archaeological pitchstone. Much archaeological pitchstone from the Scottish mainland is recovered from unsealed contexts of multi-period or palimpsest sites,
Torben Bjarke Ballin
doaj   +1 more source

The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2023
The Mesolithic burial site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, discovered in 1962, had remained a poorly understood part of the Mesolithic burial record for decades. Since 2012, the site has been under re-investigation.
Kotula Andreas   +5 more
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The use of lithic raw materials at the Early Mesolithic open‐air site Feuersteinacker (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, 2020
The open‐air site Feuersteinacker near Stumpertenrod has yielded one of the largest lithic assemblages in Central Germany. It repeatedly served as a workshop for the production of stone tools during an early phase of the Mesolithic.
Thomas Hess, F. Riede
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polish Mesolithic Pots. Jasiu Kowalczyk – in memoriam

open access: yesArchaeologia Polona, 2019
The article deals with making of pottery among the European Mesolithic communities. The author, referring to the terminological proposal of Jan Kowalczyk – "ceramic Mesolithic”, follows in this respect the development of research and the evolution of ...
Stefan Karol Kozłowski
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic and dietary transitions during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Sicily

open access: yesbioRxiv, 2020
Southern Italy is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean due to its central position. We present a genomic transect for 19 prehistoric Sicilians that covers the Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic period.
Marieke Sophia van de Loosdrecht   +26 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing Mobility Among Inferred Elites Interred in Crypts 1–3 on Kom H at Tungul (Old Dongola), Sudan

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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