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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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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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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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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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Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2017 Mongolian and Germany joint expedition started research excavation at the “Tulbur-16” Paleolithic site in 2012. The excavation covered totally 5 sq.m. In the result of the excavation, there stratigraphic has seven layers and 3664 stone tools are found.
Гүнчинсүрэн Б +2 more
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The 9+ month marathon: How pregnancy may have shaped human endurance capacities
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Anthropology has long considered the evolution of our uniquely human endurance capacities to be the result of selection upon anatomical and physiological features imposed by the demands of thermoregulation and resource acquisition, particularly during the demands of persistence hunting. Research has focused on the anatomical changes present in
Cara Ocobock
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Le site paléolithique de Roc-en-Pail (Chalonnes-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire)
Gallia Préhistoire, 2021 . The paleolithic site at Roc-en-Pail was discovered by chance between 1870 and 1871, in the context of quarrying activities when Prehistoric Science was at its youth.
Sylvain Soriano +21 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent methodological development in phylogenetic inference has focused predominantly on molecular data. However, renewed interest in other data types, particularly morphological data, has followed from the increased recognition of the power of total evidence and tip‐dating approaches, including fossil data, for inference of time‐scaled trees ...
Melanie J. Hopkins +9 more
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