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The Use of Ochre and Painting During the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura in the Context of the Development of Ochre Use in Africa and Europe

Open Archaeology, 2018
While the earliest evidence for ochre use is very sparse, the habitual use of ochre by hominins appeared about 140,000 years ago and accompanied them ever since.
Wolf Sibylle, Conard Nicholas J., Floss Harald, Dapschauskas Rimtautas, Velliky Elizabeth, Kandel Andrew W.   +5 more
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When to generalise and when to specialise? Climate change and hominin biocultural adaptability in the African early and middle stone age

Quaternary Science Advances
A growing number of authors have discussed the role of climate change in periods of important biological and cultural transition along the hominin lineage.
James Clark, Gonzalo J. Linares-Matás
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Middle Stone Age technological organisation from MIS 5 at Mertenhof Rockshelter, South Africa

Quaternary Science Advances
Lithic technological organisation within the southern Africa Early Middle Stone Age (∼315,000–80,000 years ago) has seen relatively little investigation owing to the subtly of technological change, frequent use of locally derived raw materials, and the ...
Corey A. O'Driscoll, Alex Mackay
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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.

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, Patrick Schmidt, Katja Douze, Sarah Wurz, Ludovic Bellot-Gurlet, Nicholas J Conard, Klaus G Nickel, Karen L van Niekerk, Christopher S Henshilwood   +8 more
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Africa, South: Middle Stone Age

South Africa boasts an exceptionally long history of Stone Age research, and its Middle Stone Age (MSA) record has attracted enhanced research interest in recent decades, following advances in dating techniques. Within the country's MSA, the Late Pleistocene part, sampled by numerous sites that chart the development and proliferation of innovative ...
Sahle, Yonatan, Wilkins, Jayne
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RETOLD: Review of the Meeting at the Stone Age Park Dithmarschen, Albersdorf, September 2023

EXARC Journal, 2023
At the end of September 2023 the third face-to-face meeting of the partners from the RETOLD-project took place in Albersdorf in Northern Germany, hosted by the Stone Age Park Dithmarschen (Steinzeitpark Dithmarschen).
Rüdiger Kelm
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The stony Nature of the stone tools and new archaeological discovery in the suthern desert nearby Nugrat Al- Salman , Samwa, South west Iraq.

مجلة الآداب, 2018
Ancient human in early stages of his life depended on stone (Kottak, 2006). He used some stone made tools to overcome the natural environment and prevention from any possible danger. In addition to provide his daily needs (Mohammed 2005).
Aqeel abbass Alzubaidi, Munther Ali Abdel malik   +1 more
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Towards a better understanding of cooking techniques in the African Middle Stone Age

Primitive Tider, 2017
In the first part of this paper, we present the first review of cooking techniques in the African Middle Stone Age. We show that the current knowledge is based on a restricted number of studies and on zooarchaeology and archaeobotany and that the ...
Silje Evjenth Bentsen, Sarah Wurz
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Effect of Double-J Stent Placement on Shock Wave Lithotripsy Success in the Treatment of 15-25 mm Renal Upper and Middle Calyceal Stones

Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2020
Aim:To analyze the effect of double-J stent placement on shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) success in the treatment of relatively large (15-25 mm) upper and middle calyceal stones.Methods:A total of 167 patients who had 15-25 mm opaque upper or middle calyceal
Akif Erbin, Alper Kafkaslı, Özgür Yazıcı, Alkan Çubuk, Sedat Çakmak, Yaşar Pazır, Ömer Sarılar, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut   +7 more
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A Synthesis and Critical Inventory of Nubian Cores in Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
Nubian Levallois technology has become a prominent and hotly debated topic in current Palaeolithic discourse, with important arguments surrounding modern human dispersals, cultural interactions and technological innovations resting on the presence of ...
Emily Hallinan
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