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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
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The Great Fossil Mine of the southern North Sea: exploring the potential of submerged Palaeolithic archaeology [PDF]
, 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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Takht-e Rostam, A Coastal Camp in the Southeast of the Caspian Sea during Late MIS3: A Preliminary Report of Archaeological Excavation [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological StudiesThe southern region of the Caspian Sea is regarded as a potential dispersal corridor through which humans migrated from western Eurasia to Central Asia during the Pleistocene epoch.
Hosein Ramzanpur +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Bringing behaviour into focus: archaic landscapes and lithic technology [PDF]
, 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 [PDF]
, 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
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2015 Southeastern Europe played an important role in understanding the dynamics of hominin colonizations during the Pleistocene. Consequently, in the recent years, much valuable work has been done in re-assessing the Lower Palaeolithic record in this part of ...
Doboș, A., Iovita, R.
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Palaeolithic Lamps and Their Specialization: A Hypothesis
Current Anthropology, 1987 Study of the Palaeolithic lamps which no true definition existed and whose technical, morphological, and functional characteristics and spatial and chronological distribution were very little known.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole +3 more
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