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Middle Trans-Urals and Western Siberia: from the Stone Age of to the Metal Age

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2023
The article deals with the peculiarities of formation processes of the Bronze Age among the population of hunters and fishermen of the mountain-forest Trans-Urals and the West Siberian taiga at the end of III – beginning of II millennium BC.
Korochkova Olga N.
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Coastal adaptations on the eastern seaboard of South Africa during the Pleistocene and Holocene? Current evidence and future perspectives from archaeology and marine geology

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The use of marine resources and the settlement of coastal settlements may have influenced the bio-cultural evolution and dispersal of Pleistocene Homo sapiens in Africa.
Manuel Will   +6 more
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Ounjougou (Pays dogon, Mali) : une séquence à haute résolution pour le Paléolithique moyen d’Afrique sahélienne

open access: yesAfrique Archéologie Arts, 2010
West Africa is currently entirely absent from discussions on the Middle Stone Age. While sites from this period have been known in this region for a long time, their stratigraphic context is often unclear or nonexistent. As in Southern Africa and Western
Sylvain Soriano   +3 more
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Making the Invisible Stratigraphy Visible: A Grid-Based, Multi-Proxy Geoarchaeological Study of Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Umhlatuzana rockshelter is an archaeological site with an occupational record covering the Middle Stone Age, Later Stone Age, and Iron Age. The presence of both Middle and Later Stone Age assemblages makes Umhlatuzana the ideal location for the study of ...
Femke H. Reidsma   +9 more
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The Earliest Stone Age Occupation of Eastern Middle Sweden

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 1998
This paper presents a research project on the earliest Mesolithic settlement in eastern middle Sweden. Preliminary results from the excavations of four sites are discussed within the framework of the concepts ”paleoenvironment", "natural landscape" and "
Per Gustafsson
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Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Anthropology, 2013
A critical analysis of the debate that has surrounded the emergence of “modern behavior” during the last two decades and new ways to study material culture and human-environment relationships allow us to design a novel approach with which we can understand the mechanisms that have led human populations to develop the variety of cultures that we ...
d'Errico, Francesco, Banks, William E.
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Comparison of stone clearance rate based on upper, middle, or lower calyx puncture in Mini Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (mPCNL)

open access: yesJournal of Society of Surgeons of Nepal, 2023
Introduction: PCNL is the most common surgical technique used for the management of renal stones, particularly for those with more than 2 cm stones. The aim of this study is to identify which kidney calyx—upper, middle, or lower—when punctured achieves ...
Kushal Karki, Narayan Bhusal
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Use of wood anatomy to identify poisonous plants: Charcoal of Spirostachys africana

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2015
Spirostachys africana Sond. (tamboti/tambotie) is a woodland tree that is often found near water. It has a poisonous and purgative latex. The archaeological site of Sibudu, a rock shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, has evidence, from well-preserved charcoal and ...
Sandra J. Lennox, Marion Bamford
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Neural networks differentiate between Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages in eastern Africa.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition marks a major change in how Late Pleistocene African populations produced and used stone tool kits, but is manifest in various ways, places and times across the continent.
Matt Grove, James Blinkhorn
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Investigation of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sites in the Don Basin on the Territory of Volgograd Region

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2020
The locations of the Stone Age on the Volgograd region territory have been known since the beginning of the XIX century. However, purposeful Stone Age sites explorations had only started after the Sukhaya Mechetka site was discovered by A.P. Koptev and M.
Stanislav O. Remizov
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