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The lithic assemblages from the Palaeolithic survey research in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece
Journal of Lithic StudiesAn intensive, target-oriented surface survey conducted in the Megalopolis basin during 2012-2013 led to the discovery of several Palaeolithic sites and findspots with lithics and faunal remains, including Marathousa-1, a Lower Palaeolithic open-air ...
Dalila De Caro +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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Early microlithic technologies and behavioural variability in southern Africa and South Asia [PDF]
, 2015 Microlith production is a distinctive and significant stone tool technology. However, inter-regional comparative analyses of microlithic industries are rare, and have tended to homogenise these industries by focussing analytical attention on retouched ...
Petraglia, Mike +3 more
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Revisiting the Palaeolithic site at Szeged-Öthalom: attempt for appoint the Palaeolithic horizon [PDF]
Studia Quaternaria, 2019 This paper presents a new approach to study the palaeoecological and archaeological benefits of the previously investigated Szeged-Öthalom area. The aim was to combine the archaeological results with the palaeoecological ones by a new integral view. Age-depth models of 14C dated charcoal were calculated via Bayesian method to reconstruct the sediment ...
Molnár Dávid +4 more
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
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Non-biface assemblages in Middle Pleistocene Western Europe. A comparative study [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis presents the results of an investigation into the Clactonian assemblages of Middle Pleistocene souther Britain. By exploring other non-biface assemblages (NBAs) reported from elsewhere in Europe it seeks to illuminate our understanding of the
Fluck, Hannah Louise
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Palaeolithic Sites in Northeastern Sinai [PDF]
, 1984 Old Stone Age assemblages from northeastern Sinai are described in this report. This is the first evidence for the occupation of the Sinai coastal plain during the Palaeolithic.
Gilead, Isaac
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski +2 more
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Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project [PDF]
, 2009 The Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (MVPP) was developed in response to the priorities and objectives of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. The project was focused within the Thames Gateway development area on sand/gravel aggregate deposits in ...
Francis Wenban-Smith
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