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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]

, 2017
The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha, Barash, Alon, Barzilai, Omry, Been, Ella, Benazzi, Stefano, Ekshtain, Ravid, Greenbaum, Noam, Hovers, Erella, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Levin, Lihi, Malinski-Buller, Ariel, Mayer, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef, Mitki, Netta, Nir, Nadav, Oxilia, Gregorio, Porat, Naomi, Rak, Yoel, Roskin, Joel, Shahack-Gross, Ruth, Soudack, Michalle, Stahlschmidt, Mareike C., Yeshurun, Reuven   +21 more
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]

, 2018
Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
Brilli, M, Giustini, F, Iurino, Da, Lembo, G, Massussi, M, Mazzini, I, Mecozzi, B, Muttillo, B, Sardella, R, Sigari, D, Tucci, S, Voltaggio, M   +11 more
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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this work, we analyze specimens from five sites, including the recently excavated Solutrean site of Landry, to establish whether their ...
Lila Geis, Francesco d'Errico, Fiona Jordan, Michel Brenet, Alain Queffelec   +4 more
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A Great Step Forward. Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Management among Palaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Basque Crossroads

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2020
This paper is divided into three sections. The first section describes the historiographic evolution of the study of prehistoric lithic raw materials in the Basque Crossroads (in the north of the Iberian Peninsula) during the last three decades.
Maite García-Rojas, Eder Dominguez-Ballesteros, Alejandro Prieto, Aitor Calvo, Aitor Sánchez, Andoni Tarriño, Alvaro Arrizabalaga   +6 more
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Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2015
Jones ER, Gonzalez-Fortes G, Connell S, Siska V, Eriksson A, Martiniano R, McLaughlin RL, Gallego Llorente M, Cassidy LM, Gamba C, Meshveliani T, Bar-Yosef O, Müller W, Belfer-Cohen A, Matskevich Z, Jakeli N, Higham TFG, Currat M, Lordkipanidze D, Hofreiter M, Manica A, Pinhasi R, Bradley DG.   +22 more
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Boyhood, initiation, homosexual behaviour and homosexuality in European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic [PDF]

, 2016
In this article, boyhood in European Pleistocene is decribed. After the introduction, it describes the terms "child" and "boy". In the section about the first people in Europe I have included the first people in Greece and Italy as well because most ...
Adrian van Mechelen
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Palaeolithic occupation of the Mehran Plain in Southwestern Iran

Documenta Praehistorica, 2012
In terms of Palaeolithic studies, the Mehran Plain is already known due to the discovery of the Amar Merdeg site in 1999. But in spite of the high potential for occupation in different periods, the prehistoric settlement patterns of the plain had not ...
Hojjat Darabi, Ardeshir Javanmardzadeh, Amir Beshkani, Mana Jami-Alahmadi   +3 more
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Demography and cultural innovation: A model and its implications for the emergence of modern human culture [PDF]

, 2001
In recent years there has been a major growth of interest in exploring the analogies between the genetic transmission of information from one generation to the next and the processes of cultural transmission, in an attempt to obtain a greater ...
Shennan, S
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Terrace reconstruction and long profile projection: a case study from the Solent river system near Southampton, England [PDF]

, 2012
River terrace sequences are important frameworks for archaeological evidence and as such it is important to produce robust correlations between what are often fragmentary remnants of ancient terraces.
Allen, Antoine, Ashton, Bailey, Banerjee, Bateman, Bateman, Bates, Bates, Bennett, Briant, Briant, Briant, Bridgland, Bridgland, Bridgland, Bridgland, Dade, Dale, Edwards, Francis F. Wenban-Smith, Gao, Gilbert D. Marshall, Harmar, Imbrie, Jain, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Lake, Lewin, Martin R. Bates, Murray, Murray, Murray, Olley, Olley, Parks, Phillips, Prescott, Rebecca M. Briant, Rice, Shackley, Tebbens, Thrasher, Törnqvist, Veldkamp, Veldkamp, Veldkamp, Veldkamp, Velegrakis, Wallinga, Westaway, Westaway, White, Whiteman, Whiteman   +54 more
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Bone aerophones from Eynan-Mallaha (Israel) indicate imitation of raptor calls by the last hunter-gatherers in the Levant

Scientific Reports, 2023
Direct evidence for Palaeolithic sound-making instruments is relatively rare, with only a few examples recorded from Upper Palaeolithic contexts, particularly in European cultures.
Laurent Davin, José-Miguel Tejero, Tal Simmons, Dana Shaham, Aurélia Borvon, Olivier Tourny, Anne Bridault, Rivka Rabinovich, Marion Sindel, Hamudi Khalaily, François Valla   +10 more
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