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The Evolution of Paleolithic Hunting Weapons: A Response to Declining Prey Size

Quaternary, 2023
This paper examines the hypothesis that changes in hunting weapons during the Paleolithic were a direct response to a progressive decline in prey size. The study builds upon a unified hypothesis that explains Paleolithic human evolutionary and behavioral/
Miki Ben-Dor, Ran Barkai
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The Middle Paleolithic of Arabia

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 2016
The study focuses on the origin and evolution of the Middle Paleolithic in the Arabian Peninsula, a major crossroads of human and animal migrations connecting Africa with Eurasia in the Late Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene. Middle Paleolithic human dispersal in Arabia was caused by intermittent environmental changes and related fl uctuations of the ...
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A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract 1920s/30s excavation of a Middle Devensian sequence in the northern part of Kents Cavern recovered important Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeological material, including Britain's oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Questions remain about this material, including how it came to be in the cave.
Rob Dinnis, John Boulton, Barry Chandler, Jesse Davies, Jennifer C. French, Thomas Higham, Louisa Jáuregui, Mark Lewis, Matthias Meyer, Danielle Schreve, Chris Stringer, Chris Proctor   +11 more
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A Review of the Book “The Paleolithic Settlement of Asia” [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
Professor Robin W. Dennell is a well-known British archaeologist specialized in Asian Paleolithic studies. One of his books, entitled “The Paleolithic Settlement of Asia”, published by Cambridge University Press, is reviewed here.
Seyyed Milad Hashemi
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The Chronological Factor in Understanding the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia [PDF]

Current Anthropology, 2017
For more than half a century, prehistorians have grappled with radiocarbon-based chronologies that are often contradictory and imprecise. Several key debates in the Paleolithic have their roots, at least partially, in basic issues of chronology. When did Neanderthals disappear? When did Homo sapiens disperse across Eurasia?
Douka, Katerina, Higham, Tom
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The acheulean handaxe : More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? [PDF]

, 2016
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KV is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. MC is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...
Anderson C, Bar‐Yosef O, Boesch C, Boyd R, Boyd R, Buchanan B, Calvin WH, Cavalli‐Sforza LL, Collard M, Durham WH, Durkheim E, Galef BG, Gamble C, Gowlett JAJ, Hansell M, Irons W, Jöris O, Laland K, Leakey M, Matsuzawa T, McNabb J, McNabb J, Mithen S, Mithen S, Paddayya K, Potts R, Richerson PJ, Roe D, Roebroeks W, Sanderson MJ, Schick K, Sharon G., Shennan SJ, Soressi M, Vaufrey R, Vaughan CD, Weber B, Wenban‐Smith FF, Wynn T   +38 more
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At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A Late Upper Paleolithic (LUP) site containing Ahrensburgian‐type stone tools has been discovered at South Cuidrach, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Together with a group of intertidal stone circular alignments also recently discovered on the island, this new evidence for the occupation of northern Scotland also represents the most northerly LUP site ...
Karen Hardy, Natasha L.M. Barlow, Edward Taylor, Sarah L. Bradley, John McCarthy, Graham Rush   +5 more
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The three waves: Rethinking the structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia.

PLoS ONE, 2023
The Neronian is a lithic tradition recognized in the Middle Rhône Valley of Mediterranean France now directly linked to Homo sapiens and securely dated to 54,000 years ago (ka), pushing back the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 10 ka. This incursion
Ludovic Slimak
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The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Siberia [PDF]

, 1994
Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1994This dissertation presents results of recent research in Siberia directed at (1) developing an accurate archaeological chronology for the mid-Upper Pleistocene of Siberia (chiefly through accelerator ...
Goebel, Frank E. (Ted)
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Dating the Middle Palaeolithic of Fumane Cave by the combined ESR/U‐series method

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fumane Cave, located in Northern Italy, is a major prehistoric site for understanding late Neandertal and early modern human behaviours. The cave contains a 12‐m‐thick stratigraphic sequence of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers, which have yielded a number of flint artefacts and faunal remains.
Christophe Falguères, Giulia Gruppioni, Jean Jacques Bahain, Jean Michel Dolo, Marco Peresani   +4 more
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