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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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Occupation et gestion du territoire bergeracois entre 250 et 35 kA : essai de synthèse techno-économique

Gallia Préhistoire, 2022
. In this work, we propose to examine human activities from 72 occupations within a well-defined territory, the Bergeracois, during the Pleistocene between 250 kyr and 35 kyr.
Illuminada Ortega †, Laurence Bourguignon, Émilie Claud, Emmanuelle Vieillevigne, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Mickaël Baillet, Michel Brenet, Mila Folgado Lopez, Farid Sellami, Christelle Lahaye   +9 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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Final Middle Paleolithic of Mongolia

Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy, 2018
The sites with the Middle Paleolithic complexes are known all over the territory of Mongolia. In Western Mongolia they are discovered in the Kobdo river valley, on the eastern slope, and within the southern face of the Mongolian Altai. In the southern part of the country the Middle Paleolithic sites are located in the region of Arts-Bogdo ridge, in the
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Delayed increase in stone tool cutting-edge productivity at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in southern Jordan

Nature Communications
Although 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, Joe Yuichiro Wakano, Toru Tamura, Ayami Watanabe, Masato Hirose, Eiki Suga, Kazuhiro Tsukada, Oday Tarawneh, Sate Massadeh   +8 more
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Re-evaluation of Scrapers Reduction Model Using Geometric Index of Reduction (Mar-Tarik Middle Paleolithic Assemblages) [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2011
Paleolithic lithic assemblages are traditionally described on the bases of presence of a variety of tool types(typology) and of different knapping technologies.
Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Mitra Vahidi
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Occupation and management of Bergerac territory between 250 and 35 Kans: testing a techno-economic overview

Gallia Préhistoire, 2023
. In this work, we propose to examine human activities from 72 occupations within a well-defined territory, the Bergeracois, during the Pleistocene between 250 and 35 ka. The study is based on bibliographical data stemming from programmed excavations and
Illuminada Ortega †, Laurence Bourguignon, Émilie Claud, Emmanuelle Vieillevigne, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Mickaël Baillet, Michel Brenet, Mila Folgado Lopez, Farid Sellami, Christelle Lahaye   +9 more
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The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Anthropology has long considered the evolution of our uniquely human endurance capacities to be the result of selection upon anatomical and physiological features imposed by the demands of thermoregulation and resource acquisition, particularly during the demands of persistence hunting. Research has focused on the anatomical changes present in
Cara Ocobock
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Middle Paleolithic Bone Retouchers: Size or Proportions [PDF]

, 2020
peer reviewedBone retouchers are the most common tools for processing lithic raw material in the Middle Paleolithic of Eurasia. Typically, they are perceived by Paleolithic researchers as informal, unmodified tools made from bone blanks accidentally ...
Baumann, Malvina, Kolyasnikova, Anastasia, Kolobova, Kseniya, Markin, Sergey, Krivoshapkin, Anfrey, Chabai, Viktor, Chistyakov, P.   +6 more
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