Constraining the chronology and ecology of Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic occupations at the margins of the monsoon [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 South Asia hosts the world’s youngest Acheulean sites, with dated records typically restricted to sub-humid landscapes. The Thar Desert marks a major adaptive boundary between monsoonal Asia to the east and the Saharo-Arabian desert belt to the west ...
James Blinkhorn +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Contextualizing wild cereal harvesting at Middle Palaeolithic Ghar-e Boof in the southern Zagros [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA stratigraphic sequence from Ghar-e Boof, a cave site in Iran, covering a period of c. 80,000–30,000 BP and containing more than 20,000 seed and chaff remains, allows a detailed study of the use of annual seed species of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer ...
Simone Riehl +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Technological variability during the Early Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe. Reduction systems and predetermined products at the Bau de l'Aubesier and Payre (South-East France). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The study of the lithic assemblages of two French sites, the Bau de l'Aubesier and Payre, contributes new knowledge of the earliest Neanderthal techno-cultural variability.
Leonardo Carmignani +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The Arabian Peninsula is a key region for understanding hominin dispersals and the effect of climate change on prehistoric demography, although little information on these topics is presently available owing to the poor preservation of archaeological ...
Michael D Petraglia +14 more
doaj +2 more sources
Archaic humans in the Middle Palaeolithic Levant conducted planned and selective intercepts of aurochs, but not mass hunting [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhile archaeologically challenging, determining whether hominins practised mass hunting before ca. 50,000 years ago is crucial for demonstrating intergroup communication and cooperation.
Reuven Yeshurun +6 more
doaj +2 more sources
A Middle Palaeolithic wooden digging stick from Aranbaltza III, Spain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Aranbaltza is an archaeological complex formed by at least three open-air sites. Between 2014 and 2015 a test excavation carried out in Aranbaltza III revealed the presence of a sand and clay sedimentary sequence formed in floodplain environments, within
Joseba Rios-Garaizar +10 more
doaj +2 more sources
The New evidence for the Palaeolithic on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros), North Eastern Aegean
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 Eksino, on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros) in the Northeast Aegean, is a new open-air site with evidence of Palaeolithic cultural remains. Stone tools collected by an initial survey have clarified an assessment of the site from the Lower Palaeolithic ...
Burcin Erdogu +2 more
doaj +1 more source
PLoS ONE, 2022 The Cueva de Ardales is a hugely important Palaeolithic site in the south of the Iberian Peninsula owing to its rich inventory of rock art. From 2011–2018, excavations were carried out in the cave for the first time ever by a Spanish-German research team.
José Ramos-Muñoz +20 more
doaj +2 more sources
The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe, 1999
Arheološki Vestnik, 2000 /
Boris Kavur
doaj +1 more source
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 The chronology and hominin association of the South Asian Middle Palaeolithic have attracted much attention in the last few decades. The emergence of Middle Palaeolithic culture in the region has been debated between the local origins (behavioural change)
Devara Anil +11 more
doaj +1 more source