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Examining Gravettian and Magdalenian mobility and technological organization with IR spectroscopy. [PDF]
Sci RepArchaeologists 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
Schürch B, Conard NJ, Schmidt P.
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Archaeometallurgical investigation of the Nebra Sky Disc. [PDF]
Sci RepThe world heritage object Nebra Sky Disc is one of the best investigated archaeological objects. The origin of the raw materials it is made of is well known. However, its manufacturing process was not completely clear.
Dieck S +7 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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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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At the boundaries of syntactic prehistory [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Can language relatedness be established without cognate words? This question has remained unresolved since the nineteenth century, leaving language prehistory beyond etymologically established families largely undefined. We address this problem through a theory of universal syntactic characters.
Andrea Ceolin +5 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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