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

open access: yesJournal 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fat residue and use-wear found on Acheulian biface and scraper associated with butchered elephant remains at the site of Revadim, Israel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The archaeological record indicates that elephants must have played a significant role in early human diet and culture during Palaeolithic times in the Old World.
A., Zupancich   +5 more
core   +11 more sources

Pre-Solutrean rock art in southernmost Europe: Evidence from Las Ventanas Cave (Andalusia, Spain). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Late Quaternary Proboscidean Sites in Africa and Eurasia with Possible or Probable Evidence for Hominin Involvement

open access: yesQuaternary, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Middle Palaeolithic in the Egyptian Nile Valley. [PDF]

open access: yesPaléorient, 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   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Palaeolithic occupation of the Mehran Plain in Southwestern Iran

open access: yesDocumenta 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

New evidence for the Palaeolithic in Attica, Greece

open access: yesJournal 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Boyhood, initiation, homosexual behaviour and homosexuality in European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this article, boyhood in European Pleistocene is decribed. After the introduction, it describes the terms "child" and "boy". In the section about the first people in Europe I have included the first people in Greece and Italy as well because most ...
Adrian van Mechelen
core   +1 more source

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