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Buca della Iena and Grotta del Capriolo: New chronological, lithic, and faunal analyses of two late Mousterian sites in Central Italy. [PDF]

PLoS One
Gennai J, Higham T, Romboni M, Fiorillo A, Giannì M, van der Sluis L, Marchi D, Starnini E.   +7 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Are Bordes' Mousterian facies discrete [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2013
Se evalúa la consistencia estadística de las facies Musterienses identificadas en la Península Ibérica (Charentiense, Musteriense típico y Musteriense de denticulados) como grupos discretos bien delimitados, con el objetivo de contrastar la validez de ...
SANTAMARÍA, D. y DE LA RASILLA, M.
doaj   +1 more source

The Mousterian complex in Portugal

Zephyrus, 2009
: Considering the available data, the Mousterian period is the only techno-complex from the Middle Paleolithic identified and characterized in Portugal.
João Luís CARDOSO
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The Human Remains From the MIS 6 Site of Grotta Del Poggio (Cilento, Southern Italy): A Taxonomic and Chronological Reassessment. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Grotta del Poggio is a key site for exploring the Middle Paleolithic in southern Italy, as it contains a pivotal anthropogenic deposit, mainly attributed to MIS 6, while in the Metal Ages, the cavity was used as a burial place. Excavations in the cave's deposit led to the discovery of a human molar and a human talus.
Piccirilli E, Sorrentino R, Seghi F, Vazzana A, Belcastro MG, Talamo S, Harvati K, Bettuzzi M, Morigi MP, Weber G, Capecchi G, Spagnolo V, Martini I, Moroni A, Boschin F, Ricci S, Benazzi S.   +16 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ochre-based compound adhesives at the Mousterian type-site document complex cognition and high investment. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Schmidt P, Iovita R, Charrié-Duhaut A, Möller G, Namen A, Dutkiewicz E.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Functional analysis of Middle Palaeolithic flint tools through experimental use wear analysis: the case of Prado Vargas (Cornejo) and Fuente Mudarra (Atapuerca), northern Spain [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2021
There are functional differences related to the peculiarities of each settlement. The material used to manufacture tools is one of the key factors in the analysis of use-wear traces in traceological studies.
Claudia Santamaría Cabornero, Marta Navazo Ruiz, Alfonso Benito-Calvo   +2 more
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Back(s) to basics: The concept of backing in stone tool technologies for tracing hominins' technical innovations. [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
Abstract The evolution of Paleolithic stone tool technologies is characterized by gradual increase in technical complexity along with changes in the composition of assemblages. In this respect, the emergence of retouched‐backed tools is an important step and, for some, a proxy for “modern” behavior.
Delpiano D, Gravina B, Peresani M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Agia: An Open-Air Middle Paleolithic Site in Northwestern Greece

Journal of Balkan Studies, 2023
The pause in scientific research in the prehistory of Corfu and adjacent areas in Epirus between the years 1969-1990 prompted exploratory field research to locate and record open-air Paleolithic sites threatened by destruction due to residential ...
Stephen A. Spathas
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Mousterian lithic assemblage from Vinica cave (Hrvatsko zagorje, Croatia).

Arheološki Vestnik, 2022
In this paper we present techno-typological and raw material analysis of the Mousterian lithic assemblage from Vinica cave (Hrvatsko zagorje, Croatia) excavated during late 1990s and early 2000s.
Nikola Vukosavljević, Goran Gužvica, Biserka Radanović-Gužvica, Dražen Kurtanjek, Ivor Karavanić   +4 more
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An Ochered Fossil Marine Shell From the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy

PLoS ONE, 2013
Marco Peresani, Alain Queffelec, Francesco d'Errico   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources