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Techno -economy of lithic raw materials in Piedmont (north-western Italy). A first life-like scenario

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2023
Data about Palaeolithic peopling, settlement dynamics and techno-economy of the south-western margin of the Alpine region are sketchy. In this area, the lack of systematic research and the scarcity of lithic raw materials, spread the idea that Piedmont ...
Sara Daffara, Gabriele Luigi Francesco Berruti, Sandro Caracausi, Maite García-Rojas, Marta Arzarello   +4 more
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Pre-Solutrean rock art in southernmost Europe: Evidence from Las Ventanas Cave (Andalusia, Spain). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The south of Iberia conserves an important group of Palaeolithic rock art sites. The graphisms have been mostly attributed to the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods, while the possibility that older remains exist has provoked extensive debate.
Miguel Cortés-Sánchez, José Antonio Riquelme-Cantal, María Dolores Simón-Vallejo, Rubén Parrilla Giráldez, Carlos P Odriozola, Lydia Calle Román, José S Carrión, Guadalupe Monge Gómez, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, Juan José Moyano Campos, Fernando Rico Delgado, Juan Enrique Nieto Julián, Daniel Antón García, M Aránzazu Martínez-Aguirre, Fernando Jiménez Barredo, Francisco N Cantero-Chinchilla   +15 more
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Late Quaternary Proboscidean Sites in Africa and Eurasia with Possible or Probable Evidence for Hominin Involvement

Quaternary, 2022
This paper presents a list of >100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a sample of references, chronometric or estimated ages, and brief ...
Gary Haynes
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Middle Palaeolithic in the Egyptian Nile Valley. [PDF]

Paléorient, 1978
Deux campagnes de prospections et de fouilles su; la rive gauche du Nil ont été consacrées, à l'étude de quelques ensembles du Paléolithique moyen. Le site de Beit Allam a fourni un matériel très important caractérisé principalement par un débitage Levallois, mais aussi par le débitage de galets selon un ou plusieurs plans de frappe.
Vermeersch, Pierre, Paulissen, Etienne, Otte, M., Gijselings, G., Drappier, D.   +4 more
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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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Main problems of the research on the Palaeolithic of Halych-Dnister region (Ukraine)

Open Geosciences, 2020
The article presents the results of the Palaeolithic loess sites studies in the Halych-Dnister region. It is an area in the Dnister River basin (Ukraine) with a large number of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites (Yezupil I, Halych I, Halych II ...
Bogucki Andriy, Tomeniuk Olena, Sytnyk Oleksandr, Koropetskyi Ruslan   +3 more
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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
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Revisiting the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal).

PLoS ONE, 2021
Gruta do Caldeirão features a c. 6 m-thick archaeological stratification capped by Holocene layers ABC-D and Ea, which overlie layer Eb, a deposit of Magdalenian age that underwent significant disturbance, intrusion, and component mixing caused by ...
João Zilhão, Diego E Angelucci, Lee J Arnold, Francesco d'Errico, Laure Dayet, Martina Demuro, Marianne Deschamps, Helen Fewlass, Luís Gomes, Beth Linscott, Henrique Matias, Alistair W G Pike, Peter Steier, Sahra Talamo, Eva M Wild   +14 more
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Les stations paléolithiques de Mitoc, sur le Prut (Roumanie)

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
The first Palaeolithic discoveries in Romania were made in the 19th century in Mitoc (Botoșani department). Five main stations were excavated, yielding Middle and Upper Palaeolithic industries (including Aurignacian, Gravettian and Epipalaeolithic). Some
Chirica, V., Noiret, P., Nigst, P., Chirica, C.-V., Bosch, M., Libois, T.   +5 more
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Adaptation to raw materials intra-variability: Examples from three Middle Palaeolithic surface stations of the Hérault Valley, France (Les Geissières, Saint-Saturnin and Camillo)

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021
Up to now, little was known about the Middle Palaeolithic from the Hérault Valley (France). Recently, systematic surveys have led to the discovery of several surface stations on river terraces. Some of these have yielded stone tools made from unusual raw
Cyrielle Mathias, Laurence Bourguignon, Jérôme Ivorra, Déborah Barsky, Sophie Grégoire, Cyril Viallet   +5 more
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