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Early Upper Paleolithic Man and Late Middle Paleolithic Tools [PDF]
American Anthropologist, 1971 The appearance of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Europe, the Near East, and Africa must represent either an in situ evolution of Neandertals or a migration. Those who suggest the latter claim a sudden replacement of Neandertals by anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
David S. Brose, Milford H. Wolpoff
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Lithic Technological Variability of the Middle Pleistocene in the Eastern Nihewan Basin, Northern China [PDF]
, 2004 Previous studies have generalized the technological character of the Lower Paleolithic of China with reference to its non-Acheulean features, but regional perspectives on technological variability were largely overlooked.
Qi, Wei, Shen, Chen
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton +3 more
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Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions
, 2019 North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
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Tyragetia, 2019 Mar`eva Gora is an archaeological site consisting of a multilayer flint workshop and Kul’bakovo I kurgan group consisted of two mounds. It is located on the high bank of the Yasinovka river (a tributary of the Mius River, the northeastern Sea of Azov ...
Olikh Oxana +2 more
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Vegetation context and climatic limits of the Early Pleistocene hominin dispersal in Europe [PDF]
, 2010 The vegetation and the climatic context in which the first hominins entered and dispersed in Europe during the Early Pleistocene are reconstructed, using literature review and a new climatic simulation. Both in situ fauna and in situ pollen at the twelve
Arpe, K, Leroy, SAG, Mikolajewicz, U
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Zephyrus, 2017 We approach Upper Paleolithic lithic materials from Cova Negra belonging to 30’s, 50’s, 80’s and 2013-2016 field seasons. This article focuses on the characterization of blanks, cores, and tools with a preliminary chronology, specially, from retouched ...
Valentín VILLAVERDE BONILLA +1 more
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A model of the emergence and evolution of integrated worldviews [PDF]
, 2009 It \ud is proposed that the ability of humans to flourish in diverse \ud environments and evolve complex cultures reflects the following two \ud underlying cognitive transitions.
Aerts, Dr. Diederik, Gabora, Dr. Liane
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