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Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Methodological advances in dating the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition provide a better understanding of the replacement of local Neanderthal populations by Anatomically Modern Humans.
Ana B Marín-Arroyo, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Lawrence G Straus, Jennifer R Jones, Marco de la Rasilla, Manuel R González Morales, Michael Richards, Jesús Altuna, Koro Mariezkurrena, David Ocio   +9 more
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Molar macrowear reveals Neanderthal eco-geographic dietary variation [PDF]

, 2011
Neanderthal diets are reported to be based mainly on the consumption of large and medium sized herbivores, while the exploitation of other food types including plants has also been demonstrated.
Benazzi, Stefano, Bromage, Timothy G., Fiorenza, Luca, Kullmer, Ottmar, Schrenk, Friedemann, Tausch, Jeremy   +5 more
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The Neanderthal Musical Instrument from Divje Babe I Cave (Slovenia): A Critical Review of the Discussion

Applied Sciences, 2020
The paper is a critical review of different evidence for the interpretation of an extremely important archaeological find, which is marked by some doubt.
Matija Turk, Ivan Turk, Marcel Otte
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The Acheulean of the Upper Guadiana River Basin (Central Spain). Morphostratigraphic Context and Chronology

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
In the upper basin of the Guadiana River, especially in the sectors drained by its right-bank tributaries, the Bullaque and Becea rivers, important concentrations of Acheulean and Mousterian industries can be found in a superficial position.
M. Santonja, M. Santonja, A. Pérez-González, J. Baena, J. Panera, J. Panera, E. Méndez-Quintas, E. Méndez-Quintas, D. Uribelarrea, D. Uribelarrea, M. Demuro, L. Arnold, A. Abrunhosa, A. Abrunhosa, S. Rubio-Jara, S. Rubio-Jara, S. Rubio-Jara   +16 more
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]

, 2018
Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
Brilli, M, Giustini, F, Iurino, Da, Lembo, G, Massussi, M, Mazzini, I, Mecozzi, B, Muttillo, B, Sardella, R, Sigari, D, Tucci, S, Voltaggio, M   +11 more
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Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Paleoanthropology has been slow to adopt postcolonial frameworks to assess the validity of interpretations of human origins. This blind spot is made worse when we consider that postcolonial critique is often inappropriate for post‐communist spaces.
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Mousterian lithic assemblage of the Ciota Ciara cave (Piedmont, Northern Italy): Exploitation and conditioning of raw materials

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2014
The Ciota Ciara cave is situated in Monte Fenera’s karst (Borgosesia – Vercelli), at 670 metres above sea level. It is the most important evidence of a Middle Palaeolithic settlement in Piedmont: the cave was used by Homo neanderthalensis during the OIS ...
Sara Daffara, Marta Arzarello, Gabriele L.F. Berruti, Giulia Berruto, Davide Bertè, Claudio Berto, Anna I. Casini   +6 more
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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]

, 2017
The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha, Barash, Alon, Barzilai, Omry, Been, Ella, Benazzi, Stefano, Ekshtain, Ravid, Greenbaum, Noam, Hovers, Erella, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Levin, Lihi, Malinski-Buller, Ariel, Mayer, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef, Mitki, Netta, Nir, Nadav, Oxilia, Gregorio, Porat, Naomi, Rak, Yoel, Roskin, Joel, Shahack-Gross, Ruth, Soudack, Michalle, Stahlschmidt, Mareike C., Yeshurun, Reuven   +21 more
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Geoarchaeological and microstratigraphic view of a Neanderthal settlement at Rambla de Ahíllas in Iberian Range: Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia, Spain)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 679-712, November/December 2023., 2023
Abstract The Abrigo de la Quebrada is a Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter located in the Rambla de Ahíllas in the Iberian Range (Valencia, Spain). Archaeological work began in 2007 and was completed in 2015, reaching the rockshelter substratum and uncovering a record that spans from MIS 5 to MIS 4/3.
M. Mercè Bergadà, Aleix Eixea, Valentín Villaverde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying the signs: The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in northern Iberia from the perspective of the lithic record

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2014
The lithic record, together with archaeozoological remains, makes up the most abundant assemblages at European Palaeolithic sites. During many decades in the twentieth century, the classical typological analysis (the Bordesian paradigm) has been used to ...
Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández, María-José Iriarte-Chiapusso   +3 more
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