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Nature CommunicationsAlthough the lithic cutting-edge productivity has long been recognized as a quantifiable aspect of prehistoric human technological evolution, there remains uncertainty how the productivity changed during the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition.
Seiji Kadowaki +8 more
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The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Significance The emergence of symbolic behavior in our genus is a controversial issue. The dating of paintings in three caves from the Iberian Peninsula supports the view that Neanderthals developed a form of cave art more than 20,000 years before the ...
Pitarch Martí A +7 more
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Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated archaeological material and paleoclimate records makes it difficult to understand
Emma M Finestone +13 more
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Techno-functional and 3D shape analysis applied for investigating the variability of backed tools in the Late Middle Paleolithic of Central Europe. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 In the Late Middle Paleolithic of Central Europe, two main cultural complexes have been distinguished: the Micoquian or Keilmessergruppe (KMG), and the Mousterian. Their differences mainly consist in the frequence of some retouched tools and the presence
Delpiano D, Uthmeier T.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) marks a distinct cultural change possibly related to Homo sapiens dispersals into Eurasia. New radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dates from the recent excavations at Boker Tachtit, Negev ...
Elisabetta Boaretto +9 more
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Change and Stasis in the Iberian Middle Paleolithic
, 2013 Peer ...
Ignacio de la Torre +2 more
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The performance of tranchet blows at the Late Middle Paleolithic site of Grotte de la Verpillière I (Saône-et-Loire, France). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 Frick JA, Herkert K, Hoyer CT, Floss H.
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Molar macrowear reveals Neanderthal eco-geographic dietary variation [PDF]
, 2011 Neanderthal diets are reported to be based mainly on the consumption of large and medium sized herbivores, while the exploitation of other food types including plants has also been demonstrated.
Benazzi, Stefano +5 more
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Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic
Science, 2023 Major advances over the past decade in the field of ancient DNA are providing access to past paleogenomic diversity, but the diverse functions and biosynthetic capabilities of this growing paleome remain largely elusive.
Martin Klapper +22 more
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Exploration Studies at the Middle Paleolithic Sites of the Lower Volga River in 2023
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023 In 2023 the Lower Volga Paleolithic detachment of the IAET SB RAS as part of a Lower Volga Expedition organized by the IHMC RAS continued the study of the Middle Paleolithic site Sukhaya Mechetka located on the northern outskirts of Volgograd, and also ...
Aleksander K. Otcherednoy +3 more
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