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'Fire hardening' spear wood does slightly harden it, but makes it much weaker and more brittle [PDF]

, 2016
It is usually assumed that 'fire hardening' the tips of spears, as practised by hunter-gatherers and early Homo spp., makes them harder and better suited for hunting.
Chan, Tak Lok, Ennos, Antony Roland
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Pattern of extinction of the woolly mammoth in Beringia. [PDF]

, 2012
Extinction of the woolly mammoth in Beringia has long been subject to research and speculation. Here we use a new geo-referenced database of radiocarbon-dated evidence to show that mammoths were abundant in the open-habitat of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (∼45-
Beilman, DW, Kremenetski, KV, Kuzmin, YV, MacDonald, GM, Orlova, LA, Shapiro, B, Van Valkenburgh, B, Wayne, RK   +7 more
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The ‘invisible’ pits: how informative are old excavations in discussing Middle Palaeolithic burials?

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2016
In this paper I focus on the potential of Palaeolithic sites excavated before the establishment of modern methods, aiming to provide reliable information on current debates. Specifically, I will address the reliability of the information coming from such
Doboș, A.
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Les stations paléolithiques de Mitoc, sur le Prut (Roumanie)

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
The first Palaeolithic discoveries in Romania were made in the 19th century in Mitoc (Botoșani department). Five main stations were excavated, yielding Middle and Upper Palaeolithic industries (including Aurignacian, Gravettian and Epipalaeolithic). Some
Chirica, V., Noiret, P., Nigst, P., Chirica, C.-V., Bosch, M., Libois, T.   +5 more
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Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences

Scientific Reports, 2021
The Japanese Archipelago is widely covered with acidic soil made of volcanic ash, an environment which is detrimental to the preservation of ancient biomolecules.
Fuzuki Mizuno, Jun Gojobori, Masahiko Kumagai, Hisao Baba, Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Osamu Kondo, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Matsushita, Fumihiko Matsuda, Koichiro Higasa, Michiko Hayashi, Li Wang, Kunihiko Kurosaki, Shintaroh Ueda   +13 more
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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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Insights into Red Deer Ecology during the Late Epigravettian: New isotopic evidence from Riparo Tagliente (Italian Prealps)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Glacial marked a shift from the cold conditions of Greenland Stadial‐2 (GS‐2) to the warmer phases of Greenland Interstadial‐1 (GI‐1), enabling the reoccupation of Alpine regions by Late Palaeolithic hunter‐gatherers.
Mahym Amanova, Dorothée G. Drucker, Federica Fontana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trente ans après Leroi-Gourhan, où en sont les paléolithiciens ?

Archéopages, 2008
Archaeologists specialising in the Palaeolithic owe Leroi-Gourhan many methodological advances, and the questions he raised are constantly being re-examined and broadened by prehistorians.
Françoise Audouze
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Neo‐Taphonomic Analysis of Prey Bone Remains Accumulated by Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos): A Case of Nests in Southern France

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nests in rock cavities where it accumulates prey bone remains during the breeding season. Because nests can be reoccupied from year to year, these faunal elements can form remarkable bone accumulations and, in the sub‐fossil record, be mixed with assemblages derived from human or other predator activities ...
Juliette Ripond, Véronique Laroulandie, Jean‐Baptiste Mallye, Renaud Nadal, Patrick Bayle, Christian Itty   +5 more
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The “Archeology of the Light”:  A multiproxy, interdisciplinary and experimental approach to Paleolithic subterranean activities. [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Open Research Europe
Background This article presents the A-LIGHT project and its main results. The "Archeology of the Light" (A-LIGHT) project aims to improve our knowledge of Palaeolithic cave activities through an interdisciplinary methodology applied to rarely-studied ...
Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide
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