How Do We Explain ‛Autistic Traits’ in European Upper Palaeolithic Art? [PDF]
Open Archaeology, 2018 Traits in Upper Palaeolithic art which are also seen in the work of talented artists with autism, including most obviously an exceptional realism, remain to be explained. However any association between the famously evocative animal depictions created in
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Revisiting the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Gruta do Caldeirão features a c. 6 m-thick archaeological stratification capped by Holocene layers ABC-D and Ea, which overlie layer Eb, a deposit of Magdalenian age that underwent significant disturbance, intrusion, and component mixing caused by ...
João Zilhão +14 more
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Tracking the emergence of the Upper Palaeolithic in western Asia and Europe: A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Protoaurignacian and Southern Ahmarian lithics. [PDF]
PLoS ONEReconstructing changes in human behaviour during the Pleistocene, particularly when based on lithic or other artefact types, is often hindered by the traditional categorisation of these materials into discrete entities.
Jacopo Gennai +5 more
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Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2022 A combined ancient genomic, metagenomic, and paleoproteomic analysis reveals lifestyle and dietary information of Upper Palaeolithic huntergatherers from San Teodoro cave in Sicily, Italy.
Gabriele Scorrano +16 more
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Chronological and genetic analysis of an Upper Palaeolithic female infant burial from Borsuka Cave, Poland [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: Six infant human teeth and 112 animal tooth pendants from Borsuka Cave were identified as the oldest burial in Poland. However, uncertainties around the dating and the association of the teeth to the pendants have precluded their association ...
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Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic industry at Cueva Millán in the hinterlands of Iberia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe extended period of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Europe coincided with the emergence of regionally distinctive lithic industries, signalling the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic.
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Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2020 Abstract
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Excavation at a new Upper Palaeolithic site of the Eger region (Northern Hungary)
Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2013 In August 2013, a new site was excavated on the top of Gyilkos Hill at Andornaktálya, near Eger (Northern Hungary). This investigation belongs to a Polish–Hungarian research collaboration in the frame of which four Palaeolithic sites were excavated in ...
Zsolt Mester
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Multiproxy Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Lustrous Gravels
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this work, we analyze specimens from five sites, including the recently excavated Solutrean site of Landry, to establish whether their ...
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Ochre and pigment use at Hohle Fels cave: Results of the first systematic review of ochre and ochre-related artefacts from the Upper Palaeolithic in Germany. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Though many European Upper Palaeolithic sites document early examples of symbolic material expressions (e.g., cave art, personal ornaments, figurines), there exist few reports on the use of earth pigments outside of cave art-and occasionally Neanderthal ...
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