Diachronic shifts in lithic technological transmission between the eastern Eurasian Steppe and northern China in the Late Pleistocene [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The successful occupation of the eastern Eurasian Steppe in the Late Pleistocene improved cultural connections between western Eurasia and East Asia. We document multiple waves of lithic technological transmission between the eastern Eurasian Steppe and ...
Chao Zhao, Youping Wang, John P. Walden
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Functional characterization of Mousterian tools from the Caucasus using comprehensive use-wear and residue analysis [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The authors discuss functional characterization of Mousterian tools on the basis of their use-wear and residue analysis of five lithic tools from Mezmaiskaya cave and Saradj-Chuko grotto in the North Caucasus.
E. V. Doronicheva +7 more
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Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents two distinct techno-complexes of Micoquian and Mousterian.
Elham Ghasidian +4 more
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Neanderthal had a “crush” on fats. Macronutrient estimation in Middle Paleolithic (Late Mousterian) hunter-gatherers of southern Italy [PDF]
Frontiers in Environmental ArchaeologyDuring the Late Mousterian period Apulia (southeastern Italy) was characterized by frequent and prolonged aridity that could have caused the scarcity of vegetable foods and, consequently, a lack of important nutritional compounds.
Jacopo Crezzini +10 more
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The Mousterian sequence of Hummal (Syria) [PDF]
, 2010 The well-site of Hummal, located in the arid steppe region of El Kowm (Central Syria), is scientifically important because of its long archaeological sequence. Beginning probably over a million years ago, humans visited the spring during a range of environmental conditions, and their remains can be found in more than 60 archaeological levels.
Thomas C. Hauck
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Experimental Archaeology and the Denticulate Mousterian [PDF]
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 1991 The following· essay is a summary of preliminary experimental work carried out in connection with my doctoral research on the nature of the Denticulate Mousterian facies, which was presented to the postgraduate seminar of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL on October 24th 1990.
Karen Arnold
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1997 Data originating in old excavations are often regarded by archaeologists as being of poor quality or even unusable. Such assemblages lack the stratigraphic and temporal resolution of material acquired by modern excavations and ...
Dimitra Papagianni
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The Mousterian in North-Western Tuscany: publishing fieldwork documentation leads to a new stratigraphical interpretation of the Piano di Mommio sites [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved] [PDF]
Open Research EuropeBackground The Mousterian technocomplex is commonly associated with Neanderthals and therefore serves as a proxy for their presence across Europe. Stratified archaeological sites are the most informative because they can yield information about artefacts'
Jacopo Gennai
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Dental Paleobiology in a Juvenile Neanderthal (Combe-Grenal, Southwestern France) [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Combe-Grenal site (Southwest France) was excavated by F. Bordes between 1953 and 1965. He found several human remains in Mousterian levels 60, 39, 35 and especially 25, corresponding to MIS 4 (~75–70/60 ky BP) and with Quina Mousterian lithics.
María Dolores Garralda +4 more
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