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Upper Palaeolithic Archaeology
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1976A review article on the Upper Palaeolithic could attempt to do various things, but I think it could not successfully attempt to cover all recent developments in our understanding of specific Upper Palaeolithic sequences unless it were very long and accompanied by profuse artifact illustration.
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2002
The beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic is a watershed in European prehistory. It is generally characterized by a number of significant changes in stone and bone technology. It also roughly coincides with the appearance of fully modern humans on the continent. However, the precise nature of both the archaeological and biological changes, as well as the
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The beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic is a watershed in European prehistory. It is generally characterized by a number of significant changes in stone and bone technology. It also roughly coincides with the appearance of fully modern humans on the continent. However, the precise nature of both the archaeological and biological changes, as well as the
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Palaeolithic Remains in Upper Egypt
Nature, 1967Excavations along the banks of the Nile have produced finds which indicate that Late Palaeolithic Upper Egypt was technologically less backward than it was thought to be.
FRED WENDORF, RUSHDI SAID
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Radiocarbon calibration for the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic: a comment
Antiquity, 1999Recently, ANTIQUITY published a new 14C calibration curve covering the last 45,000 years (van Andel 1998). This reply challenges the curve, suggesting it is too simple, and that there is need for caution in applying new datasets for the purposes of prehistoric and environmental calibration.
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An upper palaeolithic shrine in India?
Antiquity, 1983There is little doubt that a religious belief imparting a sense of law and order and helping to control the relationships between human populations and the other components of their environment, is highly developed among present-day hunter/gatherers. Such beliefs not only help to provide a feeling of unity stretching far beyond the hunting band itself,
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Upper Palaeolithic Sites in Nidderdale
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 1933During the great drought in 1929 there came to light at Gouthwaite Reservoir in Nidderdale three sites of Upper Palaeolithic industry. In that summer the level of the water became so low that the reservoir was less than half full, thus affording an opportunity for field work.
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Visual Cultures in the Upper Palaeolithic
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2017Using examples drawn from the European Upper Palaeolithic, this article advocates a visual cultures approach to studying the art of this period. Visual culture is defined as the biological, cognitive and social underpinnings of how we see, while the term art refers to what we see.
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The Upper Palaeolithic and the New World
Current Anthropology, 1963There are many trait-parallels between the Upper Palaeolithic of southwestern Europe and North America. They are present in the latter in four main areas, that of the Eskimo culture, Newfoundland, the St. Lawrence drainage and the Greater Southwest.
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On Specialization and the Upper Palaeolithic
Current Anthropology, 1984Thomas Weber, Luis Abel Orquera
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The Upper Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
2014The Upper Palaeolithic is the time of the emergence of physically modern humans and the evolution of their culture. It also witnessed important innovations in developing new techniques in the working of stone, bone and wood, as well as the origin of new forms and types of tools, and also of personal decoration and ornaments.
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