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Examining Gravettian and Magdalenian mobility and technological organization with IR spectroscopy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsArchaeologists can use the provenance of lithic raw materials to examine the movements, territories, and settlement dynamics of hunter-gatherers. Several studies have used macroscopic analyses to propose the long-distance transport of raw material during
Benjamin Schürch +2 more
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New data on the formation of local variations in the Upper Paleolithic of the Caucasus [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 As of today, very few Upper Paleolithic sites are known on both the southern and the northern slopes of the Caucasus. Their materials allow tracing settlement dynamics in the region from 40/39 to 20 cal ka BP.
Golovanova L.V. +2 more
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A brief prehistory of double descent [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 In their thought-provoking paper [1], Belkin et al. illustrate and discuss the shape of risk curves in the context of modern high-complexity learners. Given a fixed training sample size $n$, such curves show the risk of a learner as a function of some ...
M. Loog +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The emergence of hunting technology in the deep past fundamentally shaped the subsistence strategies of early human populations. Hence knowing when different weapons were first introduced is important for understanding our evolutionary trajectory.
Justin Coppe, Noora Taipale, Veerle Rots
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Corrigendum: How (and why) languages became more complex as we evolved more prosocial: the human self-domestication view [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyAntonio Benítez-Burraco
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Neolithic grinding practices at Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia
Studia Praehistorica, 2022 Recent research on the neolithization process has highlighted Svinjarička Čuka as a key site in Southeastern Europe with some of the earliest well-preserved Early to Middle Neolithic (associated with the Starčevo horizon) architecture and a rich ...
Laura Dietrich +2 more
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Radiocarbon Dated Trends and Central Mediterranean Prehistory
Journal of World Prehistory, 2021 This paper reviews the evidence for long term trends in anthropogenic activity and population dynamics across the Holocene in the central Mediterranean and the chronology of cultural events.
Eóin W. Parkinson +4 more
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Peer Community Journal, 2021 The vast Federmessergruppen site of Lommel-Maatheide, which is located in the Campine region (Northern Belgium), revealed the presence of numerous Final Palaeolithic concentrations situated on a large Late Glacial sand ridge on the northern edge of a ...
Tomasso, Sonja +6 more
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The Argaric Pottery from Burial at Peñalosa (Jaén, Spain)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2020 The interpretation of the manufacture and function of Argaric burial potteries has not been subject to a global and systematic study. As such, this paper has reconstructed the sequence of ceramic production of burial potteries of Peñalosa using ...
Laura Vico Triguero +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 This paper seeks to reconstruct the management of food resources in the early Neolithic site of Cabecicos Negros in southeastern Spain. For this purpose, we have studied 29 potsherds from Cabecicos Negros (Andalusia, Spain).
N. Tarifa-Mateo +5 more
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