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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015 Seeing Lithics represents a doctoral thesis submitted to Harvard University by Gilbert Tostevin in 2000. Tostevin is currently a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has written extensively on human evolution, lithic technology ...
Katie Davenport-Mackey
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'Fire hardening' spear wood does slightly harden it, but makes it much weaker and more brittle [PDF]
, 2016 It is usually assumed that 'fire hardening' the tips of spears, as practised by hunter-gatherers and early Homo spp., makes them harder and better suited for hunting.
Chan, Tak Lok, Ennos, Antony Roland
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito +2 more
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Repeated aeolian deflation during the Allerød/GI-1a-c in the coversand lowland of NW Belgium [PDF]
, 2020 The results of multi-disciplinary research carried out on the deposits of the Moerbeke "Driehoek" site, located along the northern bank of the extensive Moervaart palaeolake (NW Belgium), are presented.
Bos, Johanna A.A. +3 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White +5 more
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The Palaeolithic occupation of southern Alentejo: the Sado [PDF]
, 2011 The Sado River Drainage Survey project (2004-2008) was designed to fill a significant gap in our knowledge of the prehistory of Portugal. Southern Alentejo constitutes nearly one third of the total land mass of continental Portugal, but has received ...
Andrade, César +10 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.Abstract The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Glacial marked a shift from the cold conditions of Greenland Stadial‐2 (GS‐2) to the warmer phases of Greenland Interstadial‐1 (GI‐1), enabling the reoccupation of Alpine regions by Late Palaeolithic hunter‐gatherers.
Mahym Amanova +2 more
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2017 In connection with the recent examination, cataloguing and discussion of approximately 30,000 mainly Mesolithic lithic artefacts from Nethermills Farm at Banchory in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, excavated by the late James Kenworthy in the late 1970s and ...
Torben Bjarke Ballin +1 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cova Eirós archaeopaleontological site preserves the most comprehensive archaeostratigraphic sequence in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, with an exceptionally rich record spanning from the Mousterian to the Upper Paleolithic. The extensive fragmentation of the faunal record and the rich taxonomic diversity at this site have limited the
Hugo Bal‐García +9 more
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Arheologia Moldovei, 2017 The paper makes a presentation of the two oldest archaeological layers at the Upper Palaeolithic site of Mitoc -Malu Galben: the Aurignacian I and Iinferior assemblages. The study provides ageographic andgeologic characterization of the area, by pointing
Vasile Chirica, Diana-Măriuca Vornicu
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