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A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Eastern Africa has played a prominent role in debates about human evolution and dispersal due to the presence of rich archaeological, palaeoanthropological and palaeoenvironmental records.
Timbrell L +4 more
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Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 The African Middle Stone Age (MSA, typically considered to span ca. 300–30 thousand years ago [ka]), represents our species’ first and longest lasting cultural phase.
Scerri EML +8 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We introduce the notion of a stone age equilibrium to study societies in which property rights are absent, bilateral exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the importance of free disposal of goods which allows for excess holdings larger than consumption, thereby modelling ...
Houba, H.E.D., Weikard, H.P.
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Neural networks differentiate between Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages in eastern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The Middle to Later Stone Age transition marks a major change in how Late Pleistocene African populations produced and used stone tool kits, but is manifest in various ways, places and times across the continent.
Grove M, Blinkhorn J.
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Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2020 For more than 1.8 million years hominins at Olduvai Gorge were faced with a choice: whether to use lavas, quartzite or chert to produce stone tools. All are available locally and all are suitable for stone tool production.
Key A, Proffitt T, de la Torre I.
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Archaeological fieldwork techniques in Stone Age sites. Some case studies [PDF]
Treballs d'Arqueologia, 2015 Field techniques used in the excavation of archaeological sites are rarely specified in academic publications, under the tacit understanding that fieldwork methods are standardized enough to make their description unnecessary.
Ignacio de la Torre +4 more
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Stone age diseases and modern AIDS [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2008 The great advantage of being a sexually transmitted disease is the ability to survive and specialize solely on a host species that is present in low numbers and widely distributed so that contact between infected and uninfected organisms by chance is ...
Koch Arthur L
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Regional variability in the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in southern Africa [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHomo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300 − 200 thousand years ago (ka). Although the earliest H. sapiens fossils are associated with the Middle Stone Age (MSA), lithic technologies considered diagnostic of the MSA have been found alongside Acheulian ...
A. F. Blackwood +13 more
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Holmium Laser Lithotripsy in the New Stone Age: Dust or Bust? [PDF]
Front Surg, 2017 Modern day holmium laser systems for ureteroscopy (URS) provide users with a range of settings, namely pulse energy (PE), pulse frequency (Fr), and pulse width (PW).
Aldoukhi AH +3 more
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Wild plant gathering in Stone Age Finland [PDF]
, 2016 Please cite this article in press as: Vanhanen, S., Pesonen, P.,Wild plant gathering in Stone Age Finland, Quaternary International (2015), http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.036Peer ...
Pesonen, Petro, Vanhanen, Santeri
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