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Trente ans après Leroi-Gourhan, où en sont les paléolithiciens ?

open access: yesArchéopages, 2008
Archaeologists specialising in the Palaeolithic owe Leroi-Gourhan many methodological advances, and the questions he raised are constantly being re-examined and broadened by prehistorians.
Françoise Audouze
doaj   +1 more source

Reconnaissance a new Palaeolithic site at Al-Huwaidy in Ha’il region, northwest Saudi Arabia

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2022
Ha’il region in northwest Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of oases, flat plains, Paleo-lakes, and lava fields, which are some of the main landscape characteristics in which Palaeolithic sites have been found in the region.
Ahmed Hamid Nassr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible Memory: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Flexible memory technology is crucial for flexible electronics integration. This review covers its historical evolution, evaluates rigid systems, proposes a flexible memory framework based on multiple mechanisms, stresses material design's role, presents a coupling model for performance optimization, and points out future directions.
Ruizhi Yuan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coasting into India? - Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula

open access: yesQuaternary Environments and Humans
The coastal rim of the Indian subcontinent is believed to have played a crucial role in the dispersal of early Modern Humans from Africa into the Indian subcontinent during the Late Pleistocene.
Gopesh Jha   +3 more
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Deeper Insights Into the Lithic Raw Materials on the Iranian Plateau: West-Central Zagros Mountains [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
Recent prehistoric research, which involved surveys and excavations in the Kermanshah Region, has focusedon understanding the nature and timing of the Middle Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic transition.
Nemat Hariri   +3 more
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A new method for birch tar making with materials available in the Stone Age

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The use of birch tar can be traced back to the European Middle Palaeolithic and is relevant for our understanding of the technical skills and cognitive abilities of Neanderthals.
Tabea J. Koch, Patrick Schmidt
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Palaeolithic and Mesolithic assemblages from Tunisia

open access: yesDissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2022
With the following short review, we would like to remember our departed German friend and archaeologist Peter Nierling. He conducted several field trips in North Africa, Algeria, Lybia, and Tunisia, and on two occasions, in 1997 and 1998, one of us (A ...
Attila Péntek, Norbert Faragó
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New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: Seeing Lithics: A Middle-range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2015
Seeing Lithics represents a doctoral thesis submitted to Harvard University by Gilbert Tostevin in 2000. Tostevin is currently a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has written extensively on human evolution, lithic technology ...
Katie Davenport-Mackey
doaj   +1 more source

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