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Reconstructing contact and a potential interbreeding geographical zone between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans

open access: yesScientific Reports
While the interbreeding of Homo neanderthalensis (hereafter Neanderthal) and Anatomically modern human (AMH) has been proven, owing to the shortage of fossils and absence of appropriate DNA, the timing and geography of their interbreeding are not clearly
Saman H. Guran   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Technological and Typological Analysis of Lithic Material from Skovmosen I, Denmark

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2019
 During road construction work, material attributed to the Final Palaeolithic was discovered at Skovmosen I, near Kongens Lyngby on Zealand, eastern Denmark.
Thomas Eggers-Kaas   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial: Palaeolithic America [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Field Archaeology, 2012
In their new book Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture (reviewed in this issue), Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley argue that the Clovis culture in North America had its orig...
openaire   +1 more source

Metaphor and Materiality in Early Prehistory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this paper we argue for a relational perspective based on metaphorical rather than semiotic understandings of human and hominin1 material culture. The corporeality of material culture and thus its role as solid metaphors for a shared experience of ...
Coward, Fiona, Gamble, C.
core  

Excavating in breccia: new methods developed at the Benzú rockshelter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Excavators examining breccia deposits are faced with the prospect of extracting finds from a material akin to concrete. Nevertheless such deposits are sometimes the only witness of early Palaeolithic occupation.
Abad   +21 more
core   +2 more sources

Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Demography and cultural innovation: A model and its implications for the emergence of modern human culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In recent years there has been a major growth of interest in exploring the analogies between the genetic transmission of information from one generation to the next and the processes of cultural transmission, in an attempt to obtain a greater ...
Shennan, S
core   +1 more source

Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

Amber imitation? Two unusual cases of Pinus resin-coated beads in Iberian Late Prehistory (3rd and 2nd millennia BC) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A group of beads from the artificial cave of La Molina (Lora de Estepa, Sevilla) and Cova del Gegant (Sitges, Barcelona) were made from a biogenic raw material and intentionally covered by a layer of resin.
Avilés Escaño, Miguel Ángel   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

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