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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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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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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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Getahovit-2. New evidence of an Upper Palaeolithic settlement in northern Armenia [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2022
The cave settlement at Getahovit-2 in Armenia has a proven record of human occupation from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, making it the third prehistoric cave site, after Aghitu-3 and Kalavan-1, to be known from this region.
Irena Kalantaryan, Marcin Białowarczuk, Michał Przeździecki   +2 more
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Bilan des recherches récentes sur le Paléolithique de Casablanca (Maroc)

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2010
A thirty years co-operation in the fields of Quaternary studies have brought new evidences and allowed new interpretations about the stratigraphic sequence of Casablanca, the regional biostratigraphy of mammals and micro-mammals, the first settlements of
Jean-Paul Raynal, Fatima-Zohra Sbihi-Alaoui, Abderrahim Mohib   +2 more
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Identifying Major Transitions in the Evolution of Lithic Cutting Edge Production Rates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The notion that the evolution of core reduction strategies involved increasing efficiency in cutting edge production is prevalent in narratives of hominin technological evolution. Yet a number of studies comparing two different knapping technologies have
Antoine Muller, Chris Clarkson
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Integrated chronological control on an archaeologically significant Pleistocene river terrace sequence: the Thames-Medway, eastern Essex, England [PDF]

, 2012
Late Middle Pleistocene Thames-Medway deposits in eastern Essex comprise both large expanses of Palaeolithic artefact-bearing river sands/gravels and deep channels infilled with thick sequences of fossiliferous fine-grained estuarine sediments that yield
J.E. Whittaker, Penkman, K. E. H., Whittaker, J. E., Preece, R.C., Whitaker, J.E., J.-L. Schwenninger, Schwenninger, J-L, Wenban-Smith, F. F., Briant, R.M., Roe, H. M., Roe, H.M., Whittaker, J.E., Schwenninger, J-L., Schwenninger, J.L., H.M. Roe, Preece, R. C., Kilfeather, A.A., Parfitt, S., R.M. Briant, Kilfeather, A. A., R.C. Preece, S. Parfitt, Wenban-Smith, F.F., A.A. Kilfeather, Penkman, K.E.H., Briant, Rebecca M., Briant, R. M., K.E.H. Penkman, F.F. Wenban-Smith   +28 more
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Das Mittelwürm in den Lössen Südmährens und seine paläolithischen Kulturen [PDF]

Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 1996
Archaeological excavations at several sites in the loesses of Southern Moravia have revealed an Middle Würm Interstadial soil, classed by micromorphological analysis as between pararendzinas and chernozems.
K. Valoch
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Zum Stand der Paläolithforschung in der Schweiz [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
Research on the Palaeolithic started in Switzerland during the 19th Century in the overall framework of cave studies. Two different industries were soon recognized: middlepalaeolithic flake tools usually together with the bones of cave bear, and a late ...
M. Primas
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The ‘invisible’ pits: how informative are old excavations in discussing Middle Palaeolithic burials?

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2016
In this paper I focus on the potential of Palaeolithic sites excavated before the establishment of modern methods, aiming to provide reliable information on current debates. Specifically, I will address the reliability of the information coming from such
Doboș, A.
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