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ABSTRACT The current diversity and distribution of species and populations have been shaped by the major climatic oscillations during the Quaternary. The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a striking example of the strong effect of past climate changes on the evolutionary history of species, in fact, the alternation of glacial/interglacial cycles has led to
Tatiana Fioravanti +5 more
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Palaeolithic Western and North Central Europe
Since their initial discovery in the nineteenth century, human figurines have formed a noticeable part of the artistic record of the 30,000 years of the European Upper Palaeolithic. Some figurines—particularly the ‘Venuses’ of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic (
Pettitt, P.B., Paul Pettitt
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Our paper presents newly discovered Palaeolithic site(s) near the city of Rupea (Brașov County). The lithic pieces were found in the ploughed fields. The assemblage mainly features massive flakes knapped in siliceous sandstone. Among the retouched tools,
Doboș, A., Gridan, S.
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This paper forms an assessment of the current state of the archaeological resource for the Palaeolithic archaeological period.
Jacobi, Roger +2 more
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Light, Human Evolution, and the Palaeolithic
Human light-producing technology (i.e. the controlled use of fire) evolved during the Palaeolithic. Among its more obvious advantages to survival (heat, cooking, protection), fire-provided light in the form of hearths and lamps probably had considerable ...
Paul Pettitt +2 more
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Route planning in the palaeolithic
A systematic survey of the western fringes of the al-Дajar mountains to the south of Sharjah Emirate, by the PADMAC Unit during 2011, led to the discovery of ten Palaeolithic surface-sites/scatters in an area crossed at several points by the United ...
Scott-Jackson, J +2 more
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Form and Function in the Lower Palaeolithic
The causes of morphological variation within Lower Palaeolithic stone tool assemblages have been subject to debate for decades. As a result of numerous explanatory hypotheses, it forms one of the most substantial areas of research within Palaeolithic ...
Key, Alastair J. M.
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Decoding palaeolithic hand stencils: age and sex identification through geometric morphometrics
Funding: The author V. Fernandez-Navarro is beneficiary of a “Concepcion Arenal” 2020–21 pre-doctoral contract at the University of Cantabria for research towards the PhD.
Fernández Navarro, V. +3 more
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The European Upper Palaeolithic Palaeoecological and Archaeological Dataset for sites north of 50°N. [PDF]
Böckenförde T.
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Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. [PDF]
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