Predetermined flake production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic boundary: Yabrudian scraper-blank technology. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 While predetermined débitage technologies are recognized beginning with the middle Acheulian, the Middle Paleolithic is usually associated with a sharp increase in their use.
Shimelmitz R +3 more
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The Acheulian and Early Middle Paleolithic in Latium (Italy): Stability and Innovation. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 We present here the results of a technological and typological analysis of the Acheulian and early Middle Paleolithic assemblages from Torre in Pietra (Latium, Italy) together with comparisons with the Acheulian small tools of Castel di Guido.
Villa P +9 more
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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations.
Juan Ignacio Morales +10 more
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Expansion of eastern Mediterranean Middle Paleolithic into the desert region in early marine isotopic stage 5. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Marine Isotopic Stage 5 is associated with wetter climatic conditions in the Saharo-Arabian deserts. This stage also corresponds to the establishment of Middle Paleolithic hominins and their associated material culture in two geographical provinces in ...
Barzilai O +10 more
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Butchering knives and hafting at the Late Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (NMO), Israel. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Much of what is known about human behavior and subsistence strategies in the Levantine Middle Paleolithic comes from long sequences from caves and rock shelters.
Martin-Viveros JI +4 more
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Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Cultural transmission models are coming to the fore in explaining increases in the Paleolithic toolkit richness and diversity. During the later Paleolithic, technologies increase not only in terms of diversity but also in their complexity and interdependence.
A Bouzouggar +68 more
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Pleistocene hunter-gatherer coastal adaptations in Atlantic Iberia [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Coastal prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Iberia were particularly important to understanding Paleolithic human innovation and resilience.
Bicho, Nuno, Esteves, Eduardo
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Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant'Agostino caves. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Hafting of stone tools was an important advance in the technology of the Paleolithic. Evidence of hafting in the Middle Paleolithic is growing and is not limited to points hafted on spears for thrusting or throwing.
Degano I +8 more
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Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 Stone tools provide a unique window into the mode of adaptation and cognitive abilities of Lower Paleolithic early humans. The persistently produced large cutting tools (bifaces/handaxes) have long been an appealing focus of research in the ...
Flavia Venditti +2 more
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Early Middle Palaeolithic occupations at Ventalaperra cave (Cantabrian Region, Northern Iberian Peninsula) [PDF]
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 The Middle Paleolithic assemblage from Ventalaperra level III, excavated in 1931 by Aranzadi and Barandiarán, was initially interpreted as being Aurignacian, and then as a Late Middle Paleolithic assemblage.
Rios-Garaizar, Joseba
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