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The history of ancient Palestine from the palaeolithic period to Alexander\u27s conquest [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Reviewed Book: Ahlström, Gösta Werner. The history of ancient Palestine from the palaeolithic period to Alexander\u27s conquest.
Dion, Paul E.
core   +1 more source

Chironomid‐based summer temperature reconstruction of the Eemian–Weichselian transition at Lichtenberg, northern Germany

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Understanding the temperature variability of past interglacial cycles is essential to predict future climates. We present a new summer temperature reconstruction, based on the subfossil chironomid record from a small palaeolake adjacent to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg, northern Germany. The record spans from the Saalian late glacial over
Sonja Rigterink   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The archaeology of rock art in Northern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The first reports on the rock art of north Africa were written in the mid-nineteenth century. Since then, rock art has become a key area of African archaeological research.
DI LERNIA, Savino
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Drilling the Marathousa palaeo‐lake in Greece (Peloponnese): inferring the environmental context of a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
The Megalopolis Basin is located in the central Peloponnese (Greece), a region that is situated along one of the primary Pleistocene biogeographical corridors for intracontinental hominin migration. The basin comprises several hundred metres of Plio‐Pleistocene sediments alternating between clastics and lignites.
Ines J. E. Bludau   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The reception of Palaeolithic art at the turn of the twentieth century: between archaeology and art history [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2015
In this paper I focus on the role of art history in early conceptualizations of Palaeolithic art (1860-1930). In the decades around 1900, the formal analysis of Palaeolithic representations was highly inspired by models, theories and concepts first ...
Oscar Moro Abadía
doaj  

Authoring Terrestrial Planets with Diffusion Models

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract To support the design and subsequent generation of terrestrial planets for use in the creative media, we propose a solution that employs a generative model trained on satellite data from planetary bodies with a defined solid surface, such as the Earth and Mars.
Oliver Borg   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocultural Approaches in the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition: A Reflection on 50 Years

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On the occasion of SAFN's 50th anniversary I reflect on the development of biocultural and human evolutionary approaches to human diet and nutrition. I maintain that SAFN and its predecessors the Committee (1974–1987) and then Council on Nutritional Anthropology (1987–2004) have modeled, fostered, and advanced biocultural work in anthropology ...
Andrea S. Wiley
wiley   +1 more source

How Do We Explain ‛Autistic Traits’ in European Upper Palaeolithic Art?

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2018
Traits in Upper Palaeolithic art which are also seen in the work of talented artists with autism, including most obviously an exceptional realism, remain to be explained. However any association between the famously evocative animal depictions created in
Spikins Penny   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

«Pepper's patches» on Rangifer pelage

open access: yesRangifer, 1986
We describe and give frequencies of occurrence of a rarely-mentioned pattern of spots in Rangifer pelage. We also show that the pattern was well-known to Palaeolithic humans who recorded it in their cave art.
William O. Pruitt, Jr., Hubert Pepper
doaj   +1 more source

The Palaeolithic occupation of southern Alentejo: the Sado [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Sado River Drainage Survey project (2004-2008) was designed to fill a significant gap in our knowledge of the prehistory of Portugal. Southern Alentejo constitutes nearly one third of the total land mass of continental Portugal, but has received ...
Andrade, César   +10 more
core   +6 more sources

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