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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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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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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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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

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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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
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Des traces et des hommes

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2009
This note outlines the issues of the "Use wear and Men" project : this interdisciplinary research project deals with the acquisition and processing of plant and animal resources during Middle Palaeolithic in western Europe.
Céline Thiébaut, Émilie Claud, Sandrine Costamagno, Aude Coudenneau, Marie-Pierre Coumont, Marianne Deschamps, Magali Gerbe, Jean-Baptiste Mallye, Vincent Mourre, Guillaume Asselin, Cédric Beauval, Michel Brenet, Maria Gema Chacón, Serge Maury, Benoît Paravel, Noëlle Provenzano, Marie-Cécile Soulier   +16 more
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Variation in lithic technological strategies among the Neanderthals of Gibraltar. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
THE EVIDENCE FOR NEANDERTHAL LITHIC TECHNOLOGY IS REVIEWED AND SUMMARIZED FOR FOUR CAVES ON THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR: Vanguard, Beefsteak, Ibex and Gorham's.
Ceri Shipton, Christopher Clarkson, Marco Antonio Bernal, Nicole Boivin, Clive Finlayson, Geraldine Finlayson, Darren Fa, Francisco Giles Pacheco, Michael Petraglia   +8 more
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The Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage with Bahari Technique from the Site 21b in Deir el‑Bahari (Western Thebes), Upper Egypt

Archaeologia Polona, 2020
In the 1970s, the authors of this paper explored the Site 21b, situated in the north-western fringe of the Deir el-Bahari Valley, in the Theban Massif (Upper Egypt). Based on the significant variability in the state of preservation of artefacts’ surfaces,
Barbara Drobniewicz, Bolesław Ginter
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