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Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)

Journal of anthropology and archaeology, 2022
The paper presents the results of multidisciplinary studies on the open-air loess site Katta Sai 2 located in the western piedmonts of Tian Shan in Uzbekistan.
Małgorzata Kot, G. Pavlenok, M. Krajcarz, M. Szymanek, Stanisław Fedorowicz, P. Moska, Mukhiddin Khudjanazarov, K. Szymczak, M. Leloch, S. Kogai, S. Talamo, H. Fewlass, K. Pavlenok   +12 more
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The evolution of pyrotechnology in the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2022
Pyrotechnology, the ability for hominins to use fire as a tool, is considered to be one of the most important behavioural adaptations in human evolution.
W. Murphree, Vera Aldeias
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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, José Antonio Riquelme-Cantal, María Dolores Simón-Vallejo, Rubén Parrilla Giráldez, Carlos P Odriozola, Lydia Calle Román, José S Carrión, Guadalupe Monge Gómez, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, Juan José Moyano Campos, Fernando Rico Delgado, Juan Enrique Nieto Julián, Daniel Antón García, M Aránzazu Martínez-Aguirre, Fernando Jiménez Barredo, Francisco N Cantero-Chinchilla   +15 more
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Techno -economy of lithic raw materials in Piedmont (north-western Italy). A first life-like scenario

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, Gabriele Luigi Francesco Berruti, Sandro Caracausi, Maite García-Rojas, Marta Arzarello   +4 more
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Cova de les Malladetes (Valencia, Spain): New Insights About the Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula

Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2021
New excavations carried out at Cova de les Malladetes confirm and improve previous information on the archaeological sequence of this site. A total of 29 new dates allow to specify the chronology of the Aurignacian (levels XIVA–XII) and Gravettian ...
V. Villaverde, A. Sanchis, Ernestina Badal, Miguel Ángel Bel, M. Bergadà, A. Eixea, P. Guillem, Álvaro Martínez-Alfaro, R. Martínez-Valle, C. Martínez-Varea, Cristina Real, P. Steier, E. Wild   +12 more
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What Neanderthals and AMH ate: reassessment of the subsistence across the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region of SW Europe

Journal of Quaternary Science, 2021
Recent research in northern Spain has revealed the disappearance of Neanderthal populations in the Vasco‐Cantabrian region a few millennia earlier than in eastern and southern Iberia and discovered a short period of overlap with modern humans, at least ...
A. B. Marín‐Arroyo, Alicia Sanz-Royo
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Set in Stone? Discussing the early Upper Palaeolithic taxonomy using European and Levantine assemblages

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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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, Thomas Einwögerer, Marc Händel, Frank Lehmkuhl   +3 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, Tomeniuk Olena, Sytnyk Oleksandr, Koropetskyi Ruslan   +3 more
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