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Puzzling out the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition [PDF]

open access: yesNature Ecology & Evolution, 2020
Homo sapiens remains, molecular data and a revised chronology for the Bulgarian site of Bacho Kiro document the earliest known presence of our species in Europe, representing an important jigsaw piece in the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition.
openaire   +3 more sources

Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fox dietary ecology as a tracer of human impact on Pleistocene ecosystems.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Nowadays, opportunistic small predators, such as foxes (Vulpes vulpes and Vulpes lagopus), are well known to be very adaptable to human modified ecosystems. However, the timing of the start of this phenomenon in terms of human impact on ecosystems and of
Chris Baumann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 2021
Joào Zilhão   +8 more
openalex   +1 more source

New light on Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic projectile weapon elements / Eclairages actuels sur quelques armatures de projectiles paléo-, méso- et néolithiques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Article disponible en versions française et anglaise (traduction de M. O'Farrell)International audienceThis text is the introduction to the proceedings of the colloquium "Recherches sur les armatures de projectiles du Paléolithique supérieur au ...
Cattelain, Pierre   +5 more
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Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Over the past several decades a variety of models have been proposed to explain perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans.
Adler, Daniel S.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Mid‐infrared spectroscopy applied to a multi‐level cave system (Montmaurin, SW France): An innovative method for assessing sediment provenance

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deciphering sediment provenance is essential to understand depositional patterns and dynamics. This question is particularly important in archaeological contexts to constrain the sedimentological history of unearthed material—an information critically needed, for example, to estimate the age of the deposits—or to apprehend sediment movement ...
Fuchs Coraline   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Is the Acheulean?

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Marie‐Helene Moncel   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mesolithic Europe : glimpses of another world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[First Paragraph] Mesolithic Europe holds a special place in our imagination. Perhaps more than any other region and period, it is unique in conjuring up a strange sense of both 'otherness' and familiarity.
Spikins, Penny
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