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Quartzite procurement, not only in fluvial deposits: raw material characterisation of the lithic assemblage from Level XXII-R at El Esquilleu, Cantabrian Region, Spain.

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2022
The consideration of quartzite as a secondary raw material has relegated in-depth research of this raw material in favour of such other rocks as flint or obsidian.
Alejandro Prieto   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stones in Motion: Cost units to understand flint procurement strategies during the Upper Palaeolithic in the south-western Pyrenees using GIS

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2016
Studies on lithic resource management –mainly flint– by prehistoric groups south of the western Pyrenees have significantly increased during the past decades.
Alejandro Prieto   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary structures, artifacts and techniques indicate times of change with increasing economic ...
Vanessa Villalba-Mouco   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

A morpho-technological analysis of bifaces from the Satani-Dar Locality in Armenia: a case study of the Late Acheulean with large flake bifaces in the Caucasus

open access: yesUISPP Journal, 2022
In the Caucasus, one of the largest collections of Acheulean bifaces is known from the Satani-Dar locality in Armenia. Since the mid-20th century, bifaces from this site have been described using both traditional typological methods and a technological ...
Liubov V. Golovanova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A melting pot of Roman dogs north of the Alps with high phenotypic and genetic diversity and similar diets

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Several dog skeletons were excavated at the Roman town of Augusta Raurica and at the military camp of Vindonissa, located in the northern Alpine region of Switzerland (Germania Superior). The relationships between them and the people, the nature of their
José Granado   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The genetic prehistory of the Andean highlands 7000 years BP though European contact

open access: yesScience Advances, 2018
Ancient DNA from the Andes reveals a complex picture of human adaptation from early settlement to the colonial period. The peopling of the Andean highlands above 2500 m in elevation was a complex process that included cultural, biological, and genetic ...
J. Lindo   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Obsidian Spearhead in the Middle Paleolithic of the Elbrus Region. Preliminary Data on the Hunting Strategies

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2020
The paper presents the first results of comprehensive studies of the hunting and hunting weapons of the Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic in the Elbrus region in the Northern Caucasus.
Doronicheva Ekaterina V.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

open access: yesNature Communications, 2014
The Great Hungarian Plain was a crossroads of cultural transformations that have shaped European prehistory. Here we analyse a 5,000-year transect of human genomes, sampled from petrous bones giving consistently excellent endogenous DNA yields, from 13 ...
C. Gamba   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Geographical Dataset Describing the Complexity of the Gor River Megalithic Landscape

open access: yesJournal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023
This paper presents the data that have served as the basis for the study of the spatial patterns of the megaliths of the Gor River Valley (Granada, Spain) as part of a PhD dissertation presented in July 2023 at the University of Granada. This complex, of
Carolina Cabrero González   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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