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The Great Fossil Mine of the southern North Sea: exploring the potential of submerged Palaeolithic archaeology

open access: yes, 2014
This research explores the potential of the submerged Palaeolithic archaeology of the southern North Sea for answering questions about how hominins occupied and adapted within their environments in these northerly latitudes throughout the Pleistocene ...
Bynoe, Rachel
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Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. The basin comprises several hundred metres of Plio‐Pleistocene sediments alternating between clastics and lignites.
Ines J. E. Bludau   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bringing behaviour into focus: archaic landscapes and lithic technology

open access: yes, 2004
This paper focuses on moving beyond characterization of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in terms of thetechnology and typology of lithic artefacts, to address the behaviour and cognitive capabilities of theArchaic hominid communities of which the ...
Wenban-Smith, Francis
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Beyond the Palaeolithic: Figurative final Palaeolithic art in Mediterranean Iberia

open access: yes, 2020
This paper is part of a broad special issue exploring the Cultures of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Western Europe. In this context our aim is to offer a state of the art review of the figurative Palaeolithic art spanning the period between ...
Roman, Didac, domingo sanz, ines
core   +1 more source

La figura humana femenina en el arte parietal paleolítico del sur peninsular : a propósito de las "Venus Egabrenses"

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2009
La revisión de que han sido objeto las manifestaciones gráficas paleolíticas de la cueva de la Ermita del Calvario, en Cabra (Córdoba), ha venido a confirmar al sur de la Península Ibérica como uno de los espacios más interesantes en cuanto sus ...
Rafael Maura Mijares   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an ‘absolute’ timing of biostratigraphic and environmental phases from the Saalian late glacial to the Weichselian pleniglacial in central Europe—Insights from a lacustrine succession in Lichtenberg, northern Germany

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Palynological records are central to the biostratigraphic subdivision of the Late Pleistocene in central Europe. Yet many interglacial and interstadial phases—such as the Eemian, Brörup and Odderade—remain only poorly constrained in time due to limited numerical dating.
Michael Hein   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Gloucester Palaeolith [PDF]

open access: yesThe Antiquaries Journal, 1921
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openaire   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg, Germany, in the context of the northern central European Aurignacian

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From artifact to icon: an analysis of the Venus figurines in archaeological literature and contemporary culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis examines the body of material known as the Venus figurines, which date from the European Upper Palaeolithic period. The argument proceeds in two stages: the first examines this material through a detailed textual analysis of the ...
Lander, Louise Muriel
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A Palaeolithic mammoth bone deposit and a Late Copper Age Baden settlement and enclosure. Preliminary report on the rescue excavation at Szurdokpüspöki – Hosszú-dűlő II–III. (M21 site No. 6–7)

open access: yesDissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2015
The Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University carried out a rescue excavation at the Szurdokpüspöki – Hosszú-dűlő II-III. site, where Palaeolithic, Late Copper Age, Early Bronze Age and Roman Age features were found.
Márton Szilágyi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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