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Deeper Insights Into the Lithic Raw Materials on the Iranian Plateau: West-Central Zagros Mountains [PDF]
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 re-examination of variability in handaxe form in the British Palaeolithic [PDF]
The antiquity of handaxes was first noted over 200 years ago (Frere, 1800) and since then archaeologists have attempted to categorise and explain them. We are now much closer to elucidating the answers to why and how they were made, what they were used ...
Emery, K., Emery, K
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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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A new method for birch tar making with materials available in the Stone Age
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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Population Genomics Insights into Pharmacogenomic Differentiation Between East Asians and Europeans
Genetic variation contributes substantially to interindividual and interpopulation differences in drug response, yet most pharmacogenomic studies remain biased toward European populations. Here, we systematically assessed pharmacogenomic variation across East Asians (EAS) and Europeans (EUR) using public genomic datasets and investigated the potential ...
Sihan Chen, Hongpu Chen, Shuhua Xu
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La détection des sites de la Préhistoire ancienne en Hauts-de-France
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 making of the British early Palaeolithic, 1880-1960 [PDF]
This historical study explores the character of interpretations of the British Palaeolithic record between c. 1880 and c. 1960, focusing on attempts to classify and order the Early Palaeolithic industries.
O'Connor, Anne
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Abstract The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Glacial marked a shift from the cold conditions of Greenland Stadial‐2 (GS‐2) to the warmer phases of Greenland Interstadial‐1 (GI‐1), enabling the reoccupation of Alpine regions by Late Palaeolithic hunter‐gatherers.
Mahym Amanova +2 more
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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
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Symbolism in the Middle Palaeolithic
Abstract The existence and extent of symbolism among Middle Palaeolithic pre-modern humans present a significant point of controversy. As with any scientific dispute, there is a substantial conceptual component to these discussions, here in particular concerning the concept of symbolism, which is often poorly defined. The present chapter
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