Functional Characterisation of Microbial Communities Related to Black Stain Formation in Lascaux Cave. [PDF]
Excessive anthropization can lead to black stain alterations on cave walls. The present work reports the first metagenomic analysis of black stains threatening artwork in Lascaux Cave. Findings show new microbial taxa and genetic potential associated with black stains.
Bontemps Z +3 more
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]
Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
Brilli, M +11 more
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El arte paleolítico en el cine
El artículo investiga la difusión del arte paleolítico en el cine, desde R.F.D 10000 BC (1916) de Willis O’Brien a Alpha de Albert Hughes (2018). Establece una metodología para clasificar y estudiar el «arte paleolítico fílmico» en tres tipos: creado ...
Alberto Lombo Montañés
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Sound archaeology: terminology, Palaeolithic cave art and the soundscape [PDF]
This article is focused on the ways that terminology describing the study of music and sound within archaeology has changed over time, and how this reflects developing methodologies, exploring the expectations and issues raised by the use of differing ...
Arias P. +41 more
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Boyhood, initiation, homosexual behaviour and homosexuality in European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic [PDF]
In this article, boyhood in European Pleistocene is decribed. After the introduction, it describes the terms "child" and "boy". In the section about the first people in Europe I have included the first people in Greece and Italy as well because most ...
Adrian van Mechelen
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Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35 [PDF]
This is the 35th list of AMS radiocarbon determinations measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Amongst some of the sites included here are the latest series of determinations from the key sites of Abydos, El Mirón, Ban Chiang, Grotte
Baker, D. +5 more
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The reception of Palaeolithic art at the turn of the twentieth century: between archaeology and art history [PDF]
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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This work presents a review of the rock art conserved at a site located in the autonomous community of Andalusia, known in the preceding literature as the Las Estrellas cave (Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz).
Hipólito COLLADO GIRALDO +13 more
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The archaeology of rock art in Northern Africa [PDF]
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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