The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa [PDF]
, 2015 © 2014.Sites in North Africa hold key information for dating the presence of Homo sapiens and the distribution of Middle Stone Age (MSA), Middle Palaeolithic (MP) and Later Stone Age (LSA) cultural activity in the Late Pleistocene.
Albert, PG +12 more
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Osadnictwo mezolityczne w południowej części Pojezierza Łagowskiego [PDF]
, 2018 Despite a growing recognition of late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement in recent years, the area of Pojezierze Łagowskie still represents one of less known regions of western Poland, both in terms of Old and Middle Stone Age settlement and ...
Okuniewska-Nowaczyk, Iwona +2 more
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The Earliest Stone Age Occupation of Eastern Middle Sweden
Current 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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An Historical Survey on Light Technologies [PDF]
, 2018 Following the celebration of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies in 2015, this paper presents a survey of the exploitation of light throughout our history. Human beings started using light far into the Stone Age, in order to meet
Guarnieri, Massimo
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Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories [PDF]
Current 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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Journal 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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A Dynamical Analysis of the Suitability of Prehistoric Spheroids from the Cave of Hearths as Thrown Projectiles [PDF]
, 2016 Spheroids are ball-shaped stone objects found in African archaeological sites dating from 1.8 million years ago (Early Stone Age) to at least 70,000 years ago (Middle Stone Age).
AD Wilson +23 more
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Early modern human behavioural responses to marginal landscapes : Middle Stone Age geoarchaeology in Highland Lesotho [PDF]
, 2013 Figure S6. Effect of geographic representation of study patients on outcomes: mortality. Figure S7. Effect of geographic representation of study patients on outcomes: infections.
Daren Heyland (614600) +5 more
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Early Evidence for the Extensive Heat Treatment of Silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (Layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Heating stone to enhance its flaking qualities is among the multiple innovative adaptations introduced by early modern human groups in southern Africa, in particular during the Middle Stone Age Still Bay and Howiesons Poort traditions.
Anne Delagnes +8 more
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Similarities and differences in the lifestyles of populations using mode 3 technology in North Africa and the south of the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2019 In the geohistorical region of the Strait of Gibraltar, which includes the south of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, important research has been carried out in recent years.
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