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The New evidence for the Palaeolithic on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros), North Eastern Aegean
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 Eksino, on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros) in the Northeast Aegean, is a new open-air site with evidence of Palaeolithic cultural remains. Stone tools collected by an initial survey have clarified an assessment of the site from the Lower Palaeolithic ...
Burcin Erdogu +2 more
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Upper Palaeolithic infant burials [PDF]
Nature, 2006 Decorations on the bodies of newborns indicate that they were probably important in their community. Several adult graves from the Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic period) have been found but child burials seem to be rare, which has prompted discussion about whether this apparently different treatment of infants could be significant.
Thomas, Einwögerer +5 more
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2023 Data about Palaeolithic peopling, settlement dynamics and techno-economy of the south-western margin of the Alpine region are sketchy. In this area, the lack of systematic research and the scarcity of lithic raw materials, spread the idea that Piedmont ...
Sara Daffara +4 more
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Pre-Solutrean rock art in southernmost Europe: Evidence from Las Ventanas Cave (Andalusia, Spain). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The south of Iberia conserves an important group of Palaeolithic rock art sites. The graphisms have been mostly attributed to the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods, while the possibility that older remains exist has provoked extensive debate.
Miguel Cortés-Sánchez +15 more
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Obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia [PDF]
Antiquity, 2021 Sourced from the Tyrrhenian Islands and exchanged over long distances, obsidian was used widely across prehistoric Western Europe. An obsidian core and bladelets from a newly discovered rockshelter site in south-eastern Spain, however, raised the possibility of an unrecognised mainland source of obsidian.
João Zilhão +8 more
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Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The early Upper Palaeolithic marks the introduction at a continental scale of a fully-fledged laminar industry, and it is associated with the presence of Homo sapiens in the Near East and in Europe.
Gennai, J.
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The Palaeolithic sequence of the Arma dell’Aquila (Finale Ligure, Savona, North-western Italy)
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The excavations carried out in the rock-shelter of Arma dell’Aquila by C. Richard in 1938 and 1940 led to the discovery of a thick stratigraphy, the lowermost deposit of which yielded evidence of different periods of Upper Palaeolithic occupation.
Biagi, P., Starnini, E.
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Main problems of the research on the Palaeolithic of Halych-Dnister region (Ukraine)
Open Geosciences, 2020 The article presents the results of the Palaeolithic loess sites studies in the Halych-Dnister region. It is an area in the Dnister River basin (Ukraine) with a large number of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites (Yezupil I, Halych I, Halych II ...
Bogucki Andriy +3 more
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First Epigravettian ceramic figurines from Europe (Vela Spila, Croatia). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Recent finds of 36 ceramic artifacts from the archaeological site of Vela Spila, Croatia, offer the first evidence of ceramic figurative art in late Upper Palaeolithic Europe, c. 17,500-15,000 years before present (BP).
Rebecca Farbstein +3 more
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Les stations paléolithiques de Mitoc, sur le Prut (Roumanie)
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The first Palaeolithic discoveries in Romania were made in the 19th century in Mitoc (Botoșani department). Five main stations were excavated, yielding Middle and Upper Palaeolithic industries (including Aurignacian, Gravettian and Epipalaeolithic). Some
Chirica, V. +5 more
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