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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Masterov Kliuch and the Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Transbaikal, Siberia [PDF]
, 2000 In 1996, archaeological excavations were conducted at the Masterov Kliuch site, located east of Lake Baikal, Siberia. Three archaeological components were uncovered, all occurring in colluvial deposits.
Goebel, Ted +2 more
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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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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 2009 It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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