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TOOL KIT VARIABILITY OF THE PALEOLITHIC KHARGANYN-GOL-5 SITE IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 During the Late Pleistocene, Mongolia was probably a land of many population dispersals. The cultural shifts observed in archeological sequences document some of these events.
A. M. Khatsenovich +3 more
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Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals
Oriental Studies, 2020 In 2019, the workshop site of Kusimovo-6 in Abzelilovsky District of Bashkortostan (Russia) was discovered and explored on a large area. A collection of Middle Paleolithic artifacts numbering over 2 thousand was obtained. Goals. The work attempts at an
Vyacheslav G. Kotov +2 more
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Early evidence of stone tool use in bone working activities at Qesem Cave, Israel [PDF]
, 2016 For a long while, the controversy surrounding several bone tools coming from pre-Upper Palaeolithic contexts favoured the view of Homo sapiens as the only species of the genus Homo capable of modifying animal bones into specialised tools.
Barkai, Ran +8 more
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Threats to cycad biocultural heritage in the Amami Islands, Japan
Plant Species Biology, EarlyView.The central point we seek to frame in this article is that the increasing infestations of cycad aulacaspis scale in the Amami guntō existentially threaten not only the islands' sotetsu but rather entire cultural systems and natural ecologies that have developed around these plants.
Joshua D. Englehardt +4 more
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Total outer-connected domination number of middle graphs [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In this paper, we study the total outer-connected domination number of the middle graph of a simple graph and we obtain tight bounds for this number in terms of the order of the middle graph. We also compute the total outer-connected domination number of some families of graphs, explicitly.
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since 2020, the Saudi‐French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission to Najrān (MAFSN) has been conducting additional archaeological surveys and small‐scale excavations in the Ḥimā area, providing a wealth of data from different historical periods.
Silvia Lischi +3 more
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Contextual Focus: A Cognitive Explanation for the Cultural Revolution of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic [PDF]
In R. Alterman & D. Hirsch (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 432-437). Austin, TX: Cognitive
Science Society. (2003), 2013 Many elements of culture made their first appearance in the Upper Paleolithic. Previous hypotheses put forth to explain this unprecedented burst of creativity are found wanting. Examination of the psychological basis of creativity leads to the suggestion that it resulted from the onset of contextual focus: the capacity to focus or defocus attention in ...
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PLoS ONE, 2021 The branched reduction system at the Heidenschmiede described here is hitherto exceptional for the Middle Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura. By means of refits and supporting objects, we are able to describe a superordinate reduction system that combines ...
Berrin Çep +3 more
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A Tentative Role for FOXP2 in the Evolution of Dual Processing Modes and Generative Abilities [PDF]
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 499-504). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (2014), 2014 It has been suggested that the origins of cognitive modernity in the Middle/Upper Paleolithic following the appearance of anatomically modern humans was due to the onset of dual processing or contextual focus (CF), the ability to shift between different modes of thought: an explicit mode conducive to logical problem solving, and an implicit mode ...
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Combat and Warfare in the Early Paleolithic and Medically Unexplained Musculo-Facial Pain in the 21st Century War Veterns and Active-Duty Military Personnel [PDF]
, 2005 In a series of recent articles, we suggest that family dentists, military dentists and psychiatrists with expertise in posttraumatic stress disorder (especially in the Veterans Health Administration) are likely to see an increased number of patients ...
Bernstein, Dr. David M. +4 more
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