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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 +16 more
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 2009 It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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The acheulean handaxe : More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KV is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. MC is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...
Anderson C +38 more
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Technological Responses of Neanderthals to Macroclimatic Variations (240,000–40,000 BP) [PDF]
, 2009 Using a database of 499 archaeological assemblages from 332 sites in Europe, we statistically test a model of the economic reactivity of the hunter-gatherer production system to climatic variations.
Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre +1 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 +8 more
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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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Convergent evidence of eagle talons used by late Neanderthals in Europe: a further assessment on symbolism. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 To contribute to have a better understanding of the symbolic or not use of certain items by Neanderthals, this work presents new evidence of the deliberate removal of raptor claws occurred in Mediterranean Europe during the recent phases of the ...
Matteo Romandini +6 more
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La station moustérienne de plein air de Neufechingen-« Auf Wappenhöh » (Sarre, Allemagne)
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2012 This article presents a lithic series recovered from surface prospections of a middle terrace of the Sarre Valley at Neufechingen 'Auf Wappenhöh', near Sarrebruck (D). Based on its techno-typological characteristics (Levallois and Discoid debitage, Quina
Foni Le Brun-Ricalens +3 more
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Which way to turn? Is the Haua Fteah a Levantine site? [PDF]
, 2018 Recent work has shown early modern human occupation at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco dating as far back as MIS 9 (337 – 300 Ka). Such early dates double the period in which modern humans were present in North Africa with implications for several key debates on ...
Reynolds, Tim
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Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions
, 2019 North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
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