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Problems with two recent Petri net analyses of Neanderthal adhesive technology. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Schmidt P, Tennie C.
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Economic Specialization of Epipaleolithic Site in Layer 2 at Psytuaje Rockshelter in the Elbrus Region

Поволжская археология, 2022
A comprehensive study of Paleolithic sites using methods from different disciplines makes it possible to reconstruct the time, climate and paleogeography of the area where sites are located, to make assumptions about the strategies of life support and ...
Doronicheva Ekaterina V. , Golovanova Lyubov V. , Doronichev Vladimir B., Nedomolkin Andrey G., Poplevko Galina N. , Spasovsky Yuri N., Tregub Tamara F. , Volkov Maksim A.   +7 more
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The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region

Nature Communications, 2018
While the series of events that shaped the transition between foraging societies and food producers are well described for Central and Southern Europe, genetic evidence from Northern Europe surrounding the Baltic Sea is still sparse.
Alissa Mittnik, Chuan-Chao Wang, S. Pfrengle, Mantas Daubaras, G. Zariņa, F. Hallgren, Raili Allmäe, V. Khartanovich, V. Moiseyev, M. Tõrv, Anja Furtwängler, Aida Andrades Valtueña, M. Feldman, Christos Economou, M. Oinonen, A. Vasks, E. Balanovska, D. Reich, R. Jankauskas, W. Haak, S. Schiffels, J. Krause   +21 more
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Non-Levallois bifacial assemblages with Levallois cores – an eastern "anomaly" into a nice picture

UISPP Journal, 2021
In the eastern part of Europe, from the Carpathians in the west to the Caucasus in the south and the Volga River in the east, a number of sites have yilded lithic assemblages with bifacial leaf points and bifacial asymmetric knives, dating from OIS 7 to ...
Vladimir B. Doronichev, Liubov V. Golovanova   +1 more
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Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia

Scientific 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, Camila Oliart, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Adam B. Rohrlach, María Inés Fregeiro, Ainash Childebayeva, Harald Ringbauer, Iñigo Olalde, Eva Celdrán Beltrán, Catherine Puello-Mora, Miguel Valério, Johannes Krause, Vicente Lull, Rafael Micó, Roberto Risch, Wolfgang Haak   +15 more
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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.

Journal 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, Iñaki Yusta, Maite Garcia-Rojas, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Javier Baena Preysler   +4 more
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THE PREHISTORY OF THE CADUCEUS [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1919
To the Editor: —In the discussion of the caduceus as a medical emblem (The Journal, April 26, p. 1243), your commentator states that "whoever recommended its use as a medical emblem in this country has either been conducted by Mercury, his titular deity, to join the souls of the dead in the world below, or is keeping unusually quiet." In regard to ...
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The prehistory of compassion [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
Beyond the biological traits that differentiate ancient species of hominins from extant humans, differences in social organization remain an important yet difficult issue to assess. Psychological features and interindividual relations, in particular, are among the least accessible aspects of past behaviors.
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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

UISPP 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, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Ivan G. Shirobokov   +2 more
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Stones in Motion: Cost units to understand flint procurement strategies during the Upper Palaeolithic in the south-western Pyrenees using GIS

Journal 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, Maite García-Rojas, Aitor Sánchez, Aitor Calvo, Eder Dominguez-Ballesteros, Javier Ordoño, Maite Iris García-Collado   +6 more
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