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Reconnaissance a new Palaeolithic site at Al-Huwaidy in Ha’il region, northwest Saudi Arabia

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2022
Ha’il region in northwest Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of oases, flat plains, Paleo-lakes, and lava fields, which are some of the main landscape characteristics in which Palaeolithic sites have been found in the region.
Ahmed Hamid Nassr, Mohammed al-Hajj, Ali Tueaiman, Ahmed Elhassan   +3 more
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Deeper Insights Into the Lithic Raw Materials on the Iranian Plateau: West-Central Zagros Mountains [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
Recent prehistoric research, which involved surveys and excavations in the Kermanshah Region, has focusedon understanding the nature and timing of the Middle Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic transition.
Nemat Hariri, Mohsen Ranjbaran, Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari-Guran   +3 more
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Diversity of MIS 3 Levallois technology from Motravulapadu, Andhra Pradesh, India‐implications of MIS 3 cultural diversity in South Asia

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
The chronology and hominin association of the South Asian Middle Palaeolithic have attracted much attention in the last few decades. The emergence of Middle Palaeolithic culture in the region has been debated between the local origins (behavioural change)
Devara Anil, Monika Devi, Monika Devi, Neha Ati, Mukesh C. P, Zakir Khan, Vrushab Mahesh, P. Ajithprasad, Naveen Chauhan, Akash Pandey, Gopesh Jha, Gopesh Jha   +11 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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Late Quaternary Proboscidean Sites in Africa and Eurasia with Possible or Probable Evidence for Hominin Involvement

Quaternary, 2022
This paper presents a list of >100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a sample of references, chronometric or estimated ages, and brief ...
Gary Haynes
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Boyhood, initiation, homosexual behaviour and homosexuality in European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic [PDF]

, 2016
In this article, boyhood in European Pleistocene is decribed. After the introduction, it describes the terms "child" and "boy". In the section about the first people in Europe I have included the first people in Greece and Italy as well because most ...
Adrian van Mechelen
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Human Dental Microwear From Ohalo II (22,500–23,500 cal BP), Southern Levant [PDF]

, 2007
Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500–23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant.
Agelarakis, Baker, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Baruch, Carmi, Cook, Covert, Daegling, Dewdney, Every, Frankel, Gal, Gal, Garfinkel, Garfinkel, Goldberg, Goldberg, Golden, Gonen, Gopher, Gordon, Gordon, Goring-Morris, Grigson, Grine, Henry, Hershkovitz, Hershkovitz, Hershkovitz, Hershkovitz, Hillman, Hillman, Hillman, Hopf, Hopf, Horwitz, Kahila, Karmon, King, Kislev, Kislev, Kislev, Kislev, Lalueza, Lechevallier, Lev-Tov, Levy, Lucas, Mahoney, Mahoney, Mahoney, Mahoney, Maier, Martin, Molleson, Molleson, Nadar, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Noy, Noy, Noy, Noy, Nystrom, Organ, Pastor, Pe'rez-Pe'rez, Perrot, Perrot, Piperno, Piperno, Pough, Puech, Rabinovich, Rensberger, Rensberger, Ronen, Ryan, Schmidt, Shalev, Simmons, Smith, Steckelis, Tabachnick, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Tsatskin, Ungar, Ungar, Ungar, Ungar, Ungar, Valla, Van Valkenburgh, Van Zeist, Waddle, Walker, Weiss, Weiss, Willcox, Willcox, Wright, Zagerson, Zar, Zohar, Zohary, Zohary   +123 more
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Palaeolithic occupation of the Mehran Plain in Southwestern Iran

Documenta Praehistorica, 2012
In terms of Palaeolithic studies, the Mehran Plain is already known due to the discovery of the Amar Merdeg site in 1999. But in spite of the high potential for occupation in different periods, the prehistoric settlement patterns of the plain had not ...
Hojjat Darabi, Ardeshir Javanmardzadeh, Amir Beshkani, Mana Jami-Alahmadi   +3 more
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Early evidence of stone tool use in bone working activities at Qesem Cave, Israel [PDF]

, 2016
For a long while, the controversy surrounding several bone tools coming from pre-Upper Palaeolithic contexts favoured the view of Homo sapiens as the only species of the genus Homo capable of modifying animal bones into specialised tools.
Barkai, Ran, Blasco, Ruth, CRISTIANI, Emanuela, Gopher, Avi, LEMORINI, Cristina, Nunziante Cesaro, Stella, Rosell, Jordi, VENDITTI, FLAVIA, Zupancich, Andrea   +8 more
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What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Moncel M, Cucart‐Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García‐Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae C.   +20 more
europepmc   +2 more sources