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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, Dinko Radić, Dejana Brajković, Preston T Miracle   +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., Noiret, P., Nigst, P., Chirica, C.-V., Bosch, M., Libois, T.   +5 more
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How Do We Explain ‛Autistic Traits’ in European Upper Palaeolithic Art?

Open Archaeology, 2018
Traits in Upper Palaeolithic art which are also seen in the work of talented artists with autism, including most obviously an exceptional realism, remain to be explained. However any association between the famously evocative animal depictions created in
Spikins Penny, Scott Callum, Wright Barry   +2 more
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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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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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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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Das Mittelwürm in den Lössen Südmährens und seine paläolithischen Kulturen [PDF]

Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 1996
Archaeological excavations at several sites in the loesses of Southern Moravia have revealed an Middle Würm Interstadial soil, classed by micromorphological analysis as between pararendzinas and chernozems.
K. Valoch
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New Evidence of Serpentinite Raw Material Exploitation in the Kapova Cave (The Southern Urals)

Поволжская археология, 2017
The author considers finds from a rare material – serpentinite – produced in well-known Kapova cave. The Upper Palaeolithic objects from this stone are represented by 4 beads uncovered by V.E.
Zhitenev Vladislav S.
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Timing of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Iberian inland (Cardina-Salto do Boi, Côa Valley, Portugal)

Quaternary Research, 2020
The timing of the Neanderthal-associated Middle Palaeolithic demise and a possible overlap with anatomically modern humans (AMH) in some regions of Eurasia continues to be debated.
T. Aubry, L. Dimuccio, António Fernando Barbosa, Luís Luís, A. Santos, Marcelo Silvestre, K. Thomsen, E. Rades, M. Autzen, A. Murray   +9 more
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Les représentations de cervidés dans l’art mobilier du Paléolithique Supérieur européen

Arheologia Moldovei, 2016
The Representations of Cervidae in the Portable Art of European Upper Palaeolithic Our contribution focuses on cervidae in the narrow sense of the term (deer – doe), although we also analyze the representations of reindeer and the elk when we discuss ...
Valentin-Codrin Chirica
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