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Can the Archaeology of Manual Specialization Tell Us Anything About Language Evolution? A Survey of the State of Play [PDF]

, 2009
In this review and position paper we explore the neural substrates for manual specialization and their possible connection with language and speech. We focus on two contrasting hypotheses of the origins of language and manual specialization: the language-
Steele, J, Uomini, N
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The Clacton Spear: the last one hundred years [PDF]

, 2018
In 1911 an eminent amateur prehistorian pulled the broken end of a pointed wooden shaft from Palaeolithic-age sediments at a seaside town in Essex. This artefact, still the earliest worked wood to be discovered in the world, became known as the Clacton ...
Anon, Baker H., Barbour R. J., Bomford D., Braovac S., Caple C., Chaumat G. Q., Christensen B. B., Churchill S. E., Clavir M., Crawford O. G. S., de Guichen G, de Jong J, Dewolf H, ECCO, Elder A S, Favaro M., Freund M, Goodwin M B, Hamilton D L, Hartin D. D., Horie C. V., Jordan P., Kavvouras P. K., Kaye B. D., Kazanskaya S. Y., Lucas A, Madsen H, Masschelein-Kleiner L., Matsuda T., McNabb J., McNabb J., Mhlongo F. M., Movins H., Muñoz Viñas M., Muñoz Viñas S., Mühlethaler B, Ohel M. Y., Organ R. M., Paulke M., Pearce S., Pitts M., Rigby J. K., Rosenqvist A, Rosenqvist A., Scott B., Selwitz C, Smith G. M., Stringer C., Stringer C., Thieme H., Thieme H., Tiffany M, Van der Vall R., Wenban-Smith F. F.   +54 more
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« Geste dans geste, comme un gant »: Mains tendues à la préhistoire chez Jean-Loup Trassard et Miquel Barceló

Interfaces, 2018
This article focuses on two artists who take the hand – the origin of most gestures since the beginning of mankind - as the centre of their research and activity.
Chloé Morille
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The Sacred Engagement: Outline of a hypothesis about the origin of human ‘religious intelligence’. [PDF]

, 2007
The question that motivates the central hypothesis advanced in this paper regarding the emergence of early religious thinking is the following: ‘why does religion need material\ud culture?’ What basic functional or symbolic need renders material culture ...
Malafouris, Dr Lambros
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Bear in Mind: Bear Hunting in the Mesolithic of the Southern Caucasus [PDF]

, 2009
We present new faunal data from Kotias Klde rockshelter, Republic of Georgia, where a substantial part of the faunalv assemblage consists of brown bear remains (Ursus arctos) found in clear association with Mesolithic artifacts.
Bar-Oz, Guy, Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Belfer-Cohen, Anna, Jakeli, Nino, Matskevich, Zinovi, Meshveliani, Tengiz   +5 more
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La idea de progreso en el estudio del arte parietal paleolítico: pasado, presente y… ¿futuro?

Zephyrus, 2009
RESUMEN: El presente artículo examina el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la idea de “progreso” en la interpretación del arte parietal paleolítico.
Óscar MORO ABADÍA, Manuel R. GONZÁLEZ MORALES   +1 more
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Sortir de la grotte

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2019
The new study of Le Roc-aux-Sorciers rock shelter (Vienne), at the beginnings of the 1990s, played a leading role in the research dynamics of Upper Palaeolithic decorated shelters. Unlike most decorated caves, these sites give the opportunity to question
Geneviève Pinçon, Oscar Fuentes, Camille Bourdier   +2 more
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Archive Report: Lithics from Cnoc an Fhoimheir, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, Tiree [PDF]

, 2018
An analysis of the lithic assemblage from the excavations undertaken by Calluna Archaeology at Cnoc an Fhoimheir, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol ...
Wright, Dene
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Globalisation of Stone Tools and Beginnings of Mechanical Processing of Polymers [PDF]

Based on research on influence of rubber and plastics on globalization, an interesting question arose: can we define the first globalization way of material culture? Manufacturing of first stone tools can be seen at the site of Gona, Ethiopia (dated to 2,
Igor Catic, Ivor Karavanic, Maja Rujnic-Sokele   +2 more
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The painting and the tree : Simbolism in the Upper Palaeolithic : A tribute to a great Basque Scholar [PDF]

, 2005
En este artículo exploro las variaciones en el valor simbólico del arte del Paleolítico en Europa Occidental. Tomando mi inspiración de la demostración establecida por Jesus Altuna de la compleja relación que existe entre las frecuencias animales en el ...
Iain Davidson
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