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The archaeology of rock art in Northern Africa [PDF]
, 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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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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The reception of Palaeolithic art at the turn of the twentieth century: between archaeology and art history [PDF]
Journal 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
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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 +8 more
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The Oldest Traces of Alcoholic Beverages in the Border Zone of the North and East European Plains
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Analysis of organic compounds preserved on pottery from the Bell Beaker community and the initial phase of the Trzciniec Cultural Sphere in the border zone of the Eastern and North European Plains was prompted by traces of alcoholic beverages found in contextually and formally analogous discoveries of more westerly provenance.
Dariusz Manasterski +4 more
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Pitfalls and problems in analysing and interpreting the seasonality of faunal remains [PDF]
, 1999 Seasonality studies are an important tool in archaeological research, as long as methods are correctly applied. This paper aims to highlight problems which arise in seasonality studies due to a lack of understanding by archaeologists of animal behaviour ...
Milner, N.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak +4 more
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How Do We Explain ‛Autistic Traits’ in European Upper Palaeolithic Art?
Open 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
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«Pepper's patches» on Rangifer pelage
Rangifer, 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
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Investigating why hominins adopted particular flake technologies during the Mid‐to‐Late Pleistocene is essential to understanding patterns of lithic innovation. This period witnessed the emergence of Levallois technologies (~350–250 ka) and later blades, each “replacing” earlier forms.
Anna Mika, Alastair Key
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