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What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair Key, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Finestone, Joseph Benson, Rebecca Biermann Gürbüz, Adela Cebeiro, Roman Garba, Anne Grunow, C. Owen Lovejoy, Danielle MacDonald, Erica Maletic, G. Logan Miller, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jonathan Paige, Justin Pargeter, Tomos Proffitt, Mary Ann Raghanti, Teal Riley, Jeffrey I. Rose, David M. Singer, Robert S. Walker   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

DEDNet: Dual-Encoder DeeplabV3+ Network for Rock Glacier Recognition Based on Multispectral Remote Sensing Image

Remote Sensing
Understanding the distribution of rock glaciers provides key information for investigating and recognizing the status and changes of the cryosphere environment. Deep learning algorithms and red–green–blue (RGB) bands from high-resolution satellite images
Lujun Lin, Lei Liu, Ming Liu, Qunjia Zhang, Min Feng, Yasir Shaheen Khalil, Fang Yin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mountain rock glaciers contain globally significant water stores. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2018
Jones DB, Harrison S, Anderson K, Betts RA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing the Vulnerability of an Inuit Archaeological Site in a Changing Periglacial Environment: A Novel Multimethod Geophysical Approach in Arctic Geoarchaeology

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With northern regions warming at twice the global rate, assessing the state of archaeological sites in these areas is critically important. In this study, we used a multimethod geophysical approach (ERT, GPR, and EMI) to characterize the current geocryological conditions of an Inuit archaeological site on South Aulatsivik Island (Labrador ...
Rachel Labrie, Dominique Todisco, Najat Bhiry, Cécile Finco, Héloïg Barbel Le Page, Armelle Couillet   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rock glaciers in crystalline catchments: Hidden permafrost-related threats to alpine headwater lakes. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol, 2018
Ilyashuk BP, Ilyashuk EA, Psenner R, Tessadri R, Koinig KA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Published research on Matja Kuru 2 (MK2) demonstrates its significance for understanding human lifestyle during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Murids represent the most commonly identified taxa in the site, with specimens preliminarily classified as small, large and giant based on size comparisons.
Sarah Hannan, Sofia C. Samper Carro, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
wiley   +1 more source

Response of Remote Tropical West Pacific Islands to Climate Variability: A Multiproxy Record From T‐Lake, Palau, Spanning the Early Holocene to Present

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lake sediments are natural archives of past environmental dynamics and how these systems have responded to past climate variability. Sediment geochemistry, governed by local geology and climate processes, is unique to each lake‐catchment and geochemical proxies must be validated for each study site.
Jalene Nalbant, Larissa Schneider, Jessica L. Blois, Matthew Wolhowe, Julian P. Sachs, Simon G. Haberle, Geoffrey Clark   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting responses of Central Asian rock glaciers to global warming. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2015
Sorg A, Kääb A, Roesch A, Bigler C, Stoffel M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source