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‘You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?’. The Jodłowno Hoard (Pomerania, Poland) as Evidence of Long‐Distance Contacts in the Early Iron Age

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 193-211, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Middle Palaeolithic of the lower Volga River (Volograd Region, Russia)

open access: yesUISPP Journal, 2021
The Middle Palaeolithic of the Volga River lower basin (Volgograd district, Russia) is represented by three sites. They include the famous Sukhaya Mechetka (Volgograd) site with in situ archaeological layer excavated by S. Zamyatnin in 1952–1954.
Liudmila V. Kuznetsova
doaj   +1 more source

Lithic Miniaturization Provides a Signature of an MIS4‐3 Southern Dispersal of Homo sapiens

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Fossil and artefactual evidence shows Homo sapiens in Eurasia well before 75 ka. However, genetic evidence suggests all extant non‐African populations derive almost all of their ancestry from a dispersal that only diverged in the last 60–50 ka. In northern Eurasia, the Upper Paleolithic with its laminar blade knapping provides an archeological
Ceri Shipton
wiley   +1 more source

Middle palaeolithic chert mining in Egypt

open access: yes, 1997
sponsorship: OE_Archeologie.
Vermeersch, Pierre   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Symbolism in the Middle Palaeolithic

open access: yes, 2023
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 293-312, March 2026.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

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