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The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
Pitarch Martí A, Zilhão J, d'Errico F, Cantalejo-Duarte P, Domínguez-Bella S, Fullola JM, Weniger GC, Ramos-Muñoz J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Archaeometry, 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, P. Gan, Z. Stos‐Gale, K. Cywa, J. Karasiński   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expansion of eastern Mediterranean Middle Paleolithic into the desert region in early marine isotopic stage 5. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Barzilai O, Oron M, Porat N, White D, Timms R, Blockley S, Zular A, Avni Y, Faershtein G, Weiner S, Boaretto E.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia). [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Malinsky-Buller A, Glauberman P, Ollivier V, Lauer T, Timms R, Frahm E, Brittingham A, Triller B, Kindler L, Knul MV, Krakovsky M, Joannin S, Hren MT, Bellier O, Clark AA, Blockley SPE, Arakelyan D, Marreiros J, Paixaco E, Calandra I, Ghukasyan R, Nora D, Nir N, Adigyozalyan A, Haydosyan H, Gasparyan B.   +25 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Journal 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

Response to Comment on ‘Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains—a review’

Boreas, EarlyView.
Jiri Chlachula
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

Anthropology 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

Reassessing the role of the Urals in Palaeolithic Cave‐Art Research—Comments on ‘Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains—a review’

Boreas, EarlyView.
Aitor Ruiz‐Redondo
wiley   +1 more source

The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 2016
This study explores the origin and development of the Middle Paleolithic in the Levant—a region critical for understanding the dispersal of anatomically modern humans. The technological and typological features of the regional Middle Paleolithic industry indicate its distinctiveness, opposing it to other contemporaneous industries of Africa and Eurasia.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Zandmotor data do not resolve the question whether Middle Paleolithic birch tar making was complex or not. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Schmidt P, Rageot M, Blessing M, Tennie C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source