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New Evident of the Paleolithic in a Southern Coast of the Taganrog Bay and the Delta of the Don River

Поволжская археология, 2018
The paper presents unknown or poorly investigated sites of the Middle and Late Paleolithic found under different circumstances along the southern coast of the Bay and in the delta of Don.
Zorov Yuriy N. , Kolesnik Alexander V. , Ocherednoy Aleksander K.   +2 more
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Luminescence chronology of the key-Middle Paleolithic site Khotylevo I (Western Russia) - Implications for the timing of occupation, site formation and landscape evolution

Quaternary Science Advances, 2020
Here we present the luminescence chronology for the Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Khotylevo I, area I-6-2, in Western Russia. Even with a sizable number of such sites available on the Russian Plain, to our knowledge, no successful corresponding ...
M. Hein, M. Weiss, A. Otcherednoy, T. Lauer   +3 more
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Vegetation context and climatic limits of the Early Pleistocene hominin dispersal in Europe [PDF]

, 2010
The vegetation and the climatic context in which the first hominins entered and dispersed in Europe during the Early Pleistocene are reconstructed, using literature review and a new climatic simulation. Both in situ fauna and in situ pollen at the twelve
Arpe, K, Leroy, SAG, Mikolajewicz, U
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Pleistocene hunter-gatherer coastal adaptations in Atlantic Iberia

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Coastal prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Iberia were particularly important to understanding Paleolithic human innovation and resilience. This study will focus on Middle and Upper Paleolithic adaptations to the Iberian Atlantic border.
Nuno Bicho, Eduardo Esteves
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Two Acheuleans, two humankinds. From 1.5 to 0.85 Ma at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopian highlands) [PDF]

, 2017
The Acheulean is the longest-lasting human cultural record, spanning approximately 1.5 Ma and three continents. The most comprehensive sequences are found in East Africa, where, in large-scale syntheses, the Lower Pleistocene Acheulean (LPA) has often ...
Gallotti, Rosalia, Mussi, Margherita
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Occupation Duration and Identification of Technological Traditions: Insights from the Late Middle Paleolithic Site of Nahal Dimona 24 in the Negev Desert, Israel

PaleoAnthropology
Nahal Dimona 24 is a Middle Paleolithic rock shelter, the first Middle Paleolithic sheltered site identified and excavated in the arid Negev region, southern Israel.
Maya Oron, Naomi Porat, Erella Hovers
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Obsidian Spearhead in the Middle Paleolithic of the Elbrus Region. Preliminary Data on the Hunting Strategies

Поволжская археология, 2020
The paper presents the first results of comprehensive studies of the hunting and hunting weapons of the Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic in the Elbrus region in the Northern Caucasus.
Doronicheva Ekaterina V., Golovanova Liubov V. , Doronichev Vladimir B. , Poplevko Galina N. , Spasovsky Yuri N.   +4 more
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Dynamics of Climate and Human Settlement During the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the Northwestern Caucasus

PaleoAnthropology, 2022
Recent studies of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the northwestern Caucasus are focused on the research of relations between natural (climate and environment) and social (behavior and adaptations) factors that governed settlement dynamics of ...
Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Ekaterina V. Doronicheva, Andrey G. Nedomolkin   +3 more
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Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model

, 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 ...
A Bouzouggar, A Högberg, A Mesoudi, BD MacArthur, BD McKay, C Castellano, C Castellano, CD Godsil, D Smilkov, D Stout, D Stout, DB Bamforth, F d’Errico, F d’Errico, G Csibra, GB Tostevin, H Neff, H Terashima, J Eerkens, J González-Avella, J González-Avella, J Henrich, JC González-Avella, JC González-Avella, JR Ferguson, K Aoki, K Aoki, K Klemm, K Klemm, K Klemm, K Sterelny, L Castro, L Fogarty, L Premo, L Sanctis De, LG Straus, M Collard, M Collard, M Collard, M Collard, M Derex, M Kempe, M Muthukrishna, M O’Brien, MB Schiffer, MJ O’Brien, MW Moore, N Creanza, N Lanchier, O Bar-Yosef, P Bleed, P Bleed, P Bleed, P Moran, P Villa, R Axelrod, R Otter, RC Dunnell, RC Schank, RG Klein, S Kuhn, S McBrearty, S McBrearty, S Shennan, S Shennan, W Nakahashi, WC Wimsatt, WC Wimsatt, Y Nishiaki   +68 more
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A new AMS radiocarbon date for Middle Paleolithic Layer 4 of Ripiceni-Izvor, Romania

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2012
An AMS date is presented for the Middle Paleolithic Layer 4 of Ripiceni-Izvor, Romania. The age of > 45,500 14C BP provides a minimum age for Layer 4 and indicates that previous age assessments for the Middle Paleolithic of Ripiceni-Izvor, obtained ...
Doboș, A., Trinkaus, E.
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