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Trente ans après Leroi-Gourhan, où en sont les paléolithiciens ?
Archéopages, 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
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Reconnaissance a new Palaeolithic site at Al-Huwaidy in Ha’il region, northwest Saudi Arabia
Journal 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
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Puzzling out the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020 Homo sapiens remains, molecular data and a revised chronology for the Bulgarian site of Bacho Kiro document the earliest known presence of our species in Europe, representing an important jigsaw piece in the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition.
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The 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
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Quaternary Environments and HumansThe 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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A new method for birch tar making with materials available in the Stone Age
Scientific 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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La détection des sites de la Préhistoire ancienne en Hauts-de-France
Archéopages, 2022 The detection of Palaeolithic sites in preventive archaeology is surely one of the recurrent methodological issues of these last thirty years. The unearthing of the Seclin and Biache-Saint-Vaast deposits have marked the history of the discipline by ...
Émilie Goval, Jean-Luc Locht
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The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Anthropology has long considered the evolution of our uniquely human endurance capacities to be the result of selection upon anatomical and physiological features imposed by the demands of thermoregulation and resource acquisition, particularly during the demands of persistence hunting. Research has focused on the anatomical changes present in
Cara Ocobock
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Deeper Insights Into the Lithic Raw Materials on the Iranian Plateau: West-Central Zagros Mountains [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological StudiesRecent 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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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent methodological development in phylogenetic inference has focused predominantly on molecular data. However, renewed interest in other data types, particularly morphological data, has followed from the increased recognition of the power of total evidence and tip‐dating approaches, including fossil data, for inference of time‐scaled trees ...
Melanie J. Hopkins +9 more
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