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The influence of the geological–geomorphological setting on human settlements and historical urban development: the case study of Isernia (southern Italy)

Journal of Maps, 2021
The map is aimed at illustrating the relationships between landscape evolution and human occupation in the Isernia basin since the Middle Pleistocene. We carried out a detail scale geological–geomorphological investigation integrated with archaeological ...
Pietro P. C. Aucelli, Ettore Valente, Gianluigi Di Paola, Vincenzo Amato, Massimo Cesarano, Marilena Cozzolino, Gerardo Pappone, Vittoria Scorpio, Carmen M. Rosskopf   +8 more
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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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The Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage with Bahari Technique from the Site 21b in Deir el‑Bahari (Western Thebes), Upper Egypt

Archaeologia Polona, 2020
In the 1970s, the authors of this paper explored the Site 21b, situated in the north-western fringe of the Deir el-Bahari Valley, in the Theban Massif (Upper Egypt). Based on the significant variability in the state of preservation of artefacts’ surfaces,
Barbara Drobniewicz, Bolesław Ginter
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Palaeoenvironmental forcing during the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in central-western Portugal

, 2011
Geoarchaeological analysis of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic record preserved in cave, rock-shelter and open-air sites in the northern sector of the Meso-Cenozoic of the Western Iberian Peninsula margin (Portugal) reveals several disconformities ...
Dimuccio, Luca António, Almeida, Miguel, Miguel Almeida, Aubry, Thierry, Lúcio Cunha, Cunha, Lúcio José Sobral da, Thierry Aubry, Maria J. Neves, Luca A. Dimuccio, Diego E. Angelucci, Neves, Maria João, Angelucci, Diego E.   +11 more
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Identité biologique des artisans moustériens de Kebara (Mont Carmel, Israël) Réflexions sur le concept de néanderthalien au Levant méditerranéen

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2008
The southern Mediterranean Levant has attracted the attention of the scientific community since the early excavations conducted at the beginning of the 20th century on several sites, which provided a significant sample of Upper Pleistocene hominids ...
Anne-Marie Tillier, Baruch Arensburg, Jaroslav Brůžek   +2 more
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The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
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New Data about the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Western Morava valley [PDF]

, 2014
A relatively small number of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites have been registered in southeast Europe. There are only two regions where sites from this period have been systematically surveyed, and where they have been encountered in ...
Milošević, Stefan, Radović, Predrag, Mihailović, Dušan   +2 more
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Towards a budget approach to Pleistocene terraces: preliminary studies using the River Exe in South West England, UK

, 2009
This paper presents a first approach to using a sediment budget methodology for paired terrace staircase sediments in SW England. Although a budget approach has become firmly established in Holocene fluvial studies, it has not been used in Pleistocene ...
Toms, P.S., Brown, A. G., Scrivener, R.C., Scrivener, Richard, Brown, A.G., Basell, L. S., Scrivener, R. C., Scrivner, R.C., Basell, L.S., Toms, P. S.   +9 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
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