The Evolution of Paleolithic Hunting Weapons: A Response to Declining Prey Size
Quaternary, 2023 This paper examines the hypothesis that changes in hunting weapons during the Paleolithic were a direct response to a progressive decline in prey size. The study builds upon a unified hypothesis that explains Paleolithic human evolutionary and behavioral/
Miki Ben-Dor, Ran Barkai
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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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THE BURIALS IN PALEOLITHIC AGE AND THE CONCEPT OF DEATH / PALEOLİTİK ÇAĞDA MEZARLAR VE ÖLÜM KAVRAMI [PDF]
Folklor/Edebiyat, 2016 There are discussions about the concept of death, earliest grave applications and the purpose of primitives to bury their dead. Findspots which are associated with symbolic world of Paleolithic Age primitives and defined as graves are quite interesting.
Murat Karakoç*
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Epipaleolithic Site Discovery in Southeastern of Iran, Rayen [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2014 In the spring of 2012 an archaeological survey was conducted within the Rayen region in order to explore all the archaeological periods in this region and document all archaeological settlement patterns of this region. In general, 52 archaeological sites
Mohammad Khodabakhshi Parizi +2 more
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Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery [PDF]
, 2019 Stone tools provide a unique window into the mode of adaptation and cognitive abilities of Lower Paleolithic early humans. The persistently produced large cutting tools (bifaces/handaxes) have long been an appealing focus of research in the ...
Agam, Aviad +5 more
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The oldest anatomically modern humans from far southeast Europe: direct dating, culture and behavior. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs) are known to have spread across Europe during the period coinciding with the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition.
Sandrine Prat +8 more
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The acheulean handaxe : More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KV is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. MC is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...
Anderson C +38 more
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La investigación de las primeras ocupaciones humanas en la región Cantábrica
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2010 En el siguiente artículo se presenta una síntesis historiográfica de las investigaciones sobre el Paleolítico inferior de la Región Cantábrica. A modo de resumen se muestra la evolución de las investigaciones cantábricas sobre las primeras etapas ...
David Álvarez Alonso
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The life cycle of a successful technological innovation usually follows a well-known path: a slow inception, gradual assimilation of the technology, an increase in its frequency up to a certain peak, and then a decline.
T. Rosenberg-Yefet, M. Shemer, R. Barkai
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The prehistory of Biferno Valley (Molise): new contributions and interpretations
IpoTESI di Preistoria, 2018 The authors present the results of the study on the lithic industry collected during the project of the Biferno Valley Survey, conducted by Graeme Barker in the ’70 years in the Molise region.
Arianna Sellitto +2 more
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