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The Evolution of Long-Range Hunting with Stone-Tipped Weapons During the Afrotropic Middle Stone Age: A Testable Framework Based on Tip Cross-Sectional Area

Quaternary
In the Afrotropic biogeographic realm, with its diverse and high-density mammal population, early humans may have been hunting with stone-tipped weapons since ~500,000 years ago.
Yonatan Sahle, Marlize Lombard
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The points from Primrose Ridge: A possible Still Bay workshop on the Gauteng Grassland of South Africa

Southern African Field Archaeology
With this contribution we re-introduce a Middle Stone Age point assemblage from the Gauteng Grassland. Whilst the open-air site can no longer be excavated or dated, an updated interpretation of the Primrose Ridge points has the potential to shed new ...
Marlize Lombard, Matthew Caruana, Anders Högberg   +2 more
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A Raman micro-spectroscopy study of 77,000 to 71,000 year old ochre processing tools from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Heritage Science, 2019
Many Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa yielded hundreds, even thousands, of ochre pieces sometimes showing use traces. Less attention has been paid to the tools used for their processing. Here, seven tools excavated from the oldest layers (71,000 to
Marine Wojcieszak, Lyn Wadley
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Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia.

PLoS ONE, 2012
The Arabian Peninsula is a key region for understanding hominin dispersals and the effect of climate change on prehistoric demography, although little information on these topics is presently available owing to the poor preservation of archaeological ...
Michael D Petraglia, Abdullah Alsharekh, Paul Breeze, Chris Clarkson, Rémy Crassard, Nick A Drake, Huw S Groucutt, Richard Jennings, Adrian G Parker, Ash Parton, Richard G Roberts, Ceri Shipton, Carney Matheson, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Margaret-Ashley Veall   +14 more
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Technological homogeneity within the Arabian Nubian Complex: Comparing chert and quartzite assemblages from central and southern Arabia

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016
Nubian Levallois technology is the defining characteristic of the Middle Paleolithic or Middle Stone Age technocomplex known as the Nubian Complex. Until recently, this technocomplex was found exclusively in northeastern Africa; however, archaeological ...
Yamandú H. Hilbert, Rémy Crassard, Jeffrey I. Rose, Jeanne M. Geiling, Vitaly I. Usik   +4 more
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Pleistocene Homo and the updated Stone Age sequence of South Africa

South African Journal of Science, 2013
We provide a brief overview of how the rich South African Pleistocene Homo fossil record correlates with the recently revised Stone Age sequence.
Gerrit Dusseldorp, Marlize Lombard, Sarah Wurz   +2 more
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First identification of an evolving Middle Stone Age ochre culture at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Rosso DE, Regert M, d'Errico F.
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Red Balloon rock shelter Middle Stone Age ochre assemblage and population's adaption to local resources in the Waterberg (Limpopo, South Africa). [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci, 2023
Mauran G.
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Neolithic Layer of the Kalmius Settlement in Mariupol. Stone Crafts

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
The multilayer archaeological site Kalmius is situated on the right bank of the Kalmius river in historical center of Mariupol. The excavated area (2,8 m in depth) contains cultural layers of the 20th-19th, 18th centuries, Early Middle Age, Late Bronze ...
Kolesnik Aleksandr V., Gorbov Vladimir N.   +1 more
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Our results of rigid ureteroscopy and pneumatic lithotripsy in patients with ureteral stones

Urology Research and Practice, 2019
Objective: To determine the efficiency of rigid ureteroscopy and pneumatic lithotripsy in ureteral stones. Materials and methods: We retrospectively evaluated 349 patients (356 renal units) with ureteral stones treated with rigid ureteroscopy and ...
Ali Atan, Altuğ Tuncel, Melih Balcı, Utku Kırılmaz, Varol Nalçacıoğlu, Yılmaz Aslan   +5 more
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