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Examining Gravettian and Magdalenian mobility and technological organization with IR spectroscopy [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Archaeologists 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, Nicholas J. Conard, Patrick Schmidt   +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. , Doronichev V.B., Doronicheva E.V.   +2 more
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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 Psychology
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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Terminal ballistic analysis of impact fractures reveals the use of spearthrower 31 ky ago at Maisières-Canal, Belgium

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, Michael Brandl, Barbara Horejs   +2 more
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A closer look at an eroded dune landscape: first functional insights into the Federmessergruppen site of Lommel-Maatheide

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, Cnuts, Dries, Coppe, Justin, Geerts, Ferdi, Van Gils, Marijn, De Bie, Marc, Rots, Veerle   +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, Jesús Gámiz Caro, Francisco Martín Peinado, Alejandra García García, Eva Alarcón García, Francisco Contreras Cortés, María Auxiliadora Moreno Onorato   +6 more
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Investigating livestock management in the early Neolithic archaeological site of Cabecicos Negros (Almería, Spain) from the organic residue analysis in pottery

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, M. Saña, X. Clop, A. Rosell-Melé, M. D. Camalich-Massieu, D. Martín-Socas   +5 more
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First modern human settlement recorded in the Iberian hinterland occurred during Heinrich Stadial 2 within harsh environmental conditions

Scientific Reports, 2021
As the south-westernmost region of Europe, the Iberian Peninsula stands as a key area for understanding the process of modern human dispersal into Eurasia.
M. Alcaraz-Castaño, J. J. Alcolea-González, M. de Andrés-Herrero, S. Castillo-Jiménez, F. Cuartero, G. Cuenca-Bescós, M. Kehl, J. A. López-Sáez, L. Luque, S. Pérez-Díaz, R. Piqué, M. Ruiz-Alonso, G.-C. Weniger, J. Yravedra   +13 more
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The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory

British Art Studies, 2017
This paper explores two contexts for Francis Skidmore and George Gilbert Scott's screen at Hereford Cathedral. First, it locates the screen within a succession of choir screens at Hereford from the middle ages to the present, thereby charting the ...
The Hereford Screen: A Prehistory
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