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Palaeolithic Remains in Upper Egypt

Nature, 1967
Excavations 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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Direct radiocarbon dates of mid Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Dolní Věstonice II and Pavlov I, Czech Republic

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2019
The ritual human burials and scattered fragments of human bones excavated from Dolni Vestonice II and Pavlov I (Czech Republic) in the 20th century provide a large body of evidence on morphology and funerary practices in the Gravettian as well as the ...
H. Fewlass, S. Talamo, B. Kromer, E. Bard, T. Tuna, Yoann Fagault, M. Sponheimer, Christina Ryder, J. Hublin, Angela R. Perri, Sandra Sázelová, J. Svoboda   +11 more
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Radiocarbon calibration for the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic: a comment

Antiquity, 1999
Recently, 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, 1983
There 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,
J. M. Kenoyer, J. D. Clark, J. N. Pal, G. R. Sharma   +3 more
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An Early Upper Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Mughr El-Hamamah, Jordan: An Interim Report

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2019
Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan) Layer B contains an Early Upper Palaeolithic stone tool assemblage dating to around 39–45 kya cal b.p. This assemblage is unusual in that it samples human forager activities around the ecotone between the Transjordanian Plateau ...
J. Shea, A. Stutz, Liv Nilsson-Stutz
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The older, the better? On the radiocarbon dating of Upper Palaeolithic burials in Northern Eurasia and beyond

Antiquity, 2019
The reliability of radiocarbon dates for Palaeolithic human burials is of utmost importance for prehistoric archaeologists. Recently obtained dates for several such burials in central Russia raise important interrelated issues concerning site taphonomy ...
Y. Kuzmin
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Upper Palaeolithic Sites in Nidderdale

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 1933
During 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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European Upper Palaeolithic cultural taxa: better off without them?

Antiquity, 2019
Reynolds and Riede (2019) argue that European Upper Palaeolithic cultural taxonomy has become unworkably complex and that it impedes progress towards the integration of archaeology with new findings from other scientific fields.
J. Shea
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Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic

Human Ecology, 2021
M. Germonpré, M. Van den Broeck, M. Lázničková-Galetová, M. Sablin, H. Bocherens   +4 more
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Long-distance contacts and social networks of the Upper Palaeolithic humans in the North-Western Caucasus (on data from Mezmaiskaya Cave, Russia)

, 2021
L. Golovanova, V. Doronichev, E. Doronicheva, V. Sapega, Michaela Shackley   +4 more
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