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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Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2020 Abstract
Nowell A, French J.
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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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The European Upper Palaeolithic Palaeoecological and Archaeological Dataset for sites north of 50°N [PDF]
Scientific DataThe European Upper Palaeolithic Palaeoecological and Archaeological Dataset for sites north of 50°N (EUPPAD) presents a systematic collection of palaeoecological and archaeological data from Upper Palaeolithic sites across Europe north of 50°N.
Tilman Böckenförde
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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 ...
Helen Fewlass +7 more
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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.
Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos +16 more
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Upper Palaeolithic site probability in Lower Austria – a geoarchaeological multi-factor approach
Journal of Maps, 2022 In archaeology, predictive models play a key role in understanding the interactions between humans and the palaeo-environment. They are also of great value for cultural heritage management and planning purposes. This is particularly true for Palaeolithic
Bruno Boemke +3 more
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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 ...
Elizabeth C Velliky +2 more
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The Late Upper Palaeolithic and earliest Mesolithic evidence of burials in Europe [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Jörg Orschiedt
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