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Late Quaternary Proboscidean Sites in Africa and Eurasia with Possible or Probable Evidence for Hominin Involvement

Quaternary, 2022
This paper presents a list of >100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a sample of references, chronometric or estimated ages, and brief ...
Gary Haynes
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New AMS (14)C dates from the early Upper Paleolithic sequence of Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel [PDF]

, 2006
Raqefet Cave (35°04'21"N, 32°39'17"W) is situated in the southeastern side of Mount Carmel in Israel (Figure 1) on the left bank of wadi Raqefet (230 m asl), ~50 m above the wadi bed. It is 50 m long with an area of ~500 m2 (Figure 2).
Fabre, Laurent, Boaretto, Elisabetta, Ronen, Avraham, Lengyel, György   +3 more
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Deglacial landscapes and the Late Upper Palaeolithic of Switzerland

Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020
The presence of people in Switzerland in recently deglaciated landscapes after the Last Glacial Maximum represents human utilisation of newly available environments.
H. Reade, J. Tripp, Sophy Charlton, S. Grimm, D. Leesch, W. Müller, Kerry L. Sayle, A. Fensome, T. Higham, I. Barnes, R. Stevens   +10 more
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Lithic techno-complexes in Italy from 50 to 39 thousand years BP: An overview of lithic technological changes across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic boundary [PDF]

Quaternary International, 2019
Defining the processes involved in the technical/cultural shifts from the Late Middle to the Early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe (~50-39 thousand years BP) is one of the most important tasks facing prehistoric studies.
Giulia Marciani, A. Ronchitelli, S. Arrighi, F. Badino, E. Bortolini, Paolo Boscato, F. Boschin, J. Crezzini, D. Delpiano, A. Falcucci, Carla Figus, F. Lugli, Gregorio Oxilia, M. Romandini, J. Riel‐Salvatore, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, E. Spinapolice, A. Moroni, S. Benazzi   +19 more
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The Significance of the Pech Merle Spotted Horses

Arts, 2014
The Pech Merle spotted horses have been one of the key lines of evidence put forward in support of the notion Upper Palaeolithic cave depictions relate to a concern for the supernatural.
Derek Hodgson
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The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain)

Quaternary International, 2020
The use of caves during the Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe was often characterized by alternation between humans (Neandertals and Anatomically Modern Humans) and carnivores.
A. B. Marín‐Arroyo, J. Geiling, Jennifer R. Jones, M. G. González Morales, L. Straus, M. Richards   +5 more
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Macromammal and bird assemblages across the late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy: an extended zooarchaeological review [PDF]

Quaternary International, 2019
Evidence of human activities during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is well represented from rock-shelters, caves and open-air sites across Italy. Over the past decade, both the revision of taphonomic processes affecting archaeological faunal
M. Romandini, J. Crezzini, E. Bortolini, Paolo Boscato, F. Boschin, Lisa Carrera, N. Nannini, A. Tagliacozzo, Gabriele Terlato, S. Arrighi, F. Badino, Carla Figus, F. Lugli, Giulia Marciani, Gregorio Oxilia, A. Moroni, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, J. Riel‐Salvatore, A. Ronchitelli, E. Spinapolice, S. Benazzi   +21 more
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The lithic assemblages from the Palaeolithic survey research in the Megalopolis Basin, Greece

Journal of Lithic Studies
An intensive, target-oriented surface survey conducted in the Megalopolis basin during 2012-2013 led to the discovery of several Palaeolithic sites and findspots with lithics and faunal remains, including Marathousa-1, a Lower Palaeolithic open-air ...
Dalila De Caro, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thomson, Aristeidis Varis, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati   +5 more
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The Kostënki 18 child burial and the cultural and funerary landscape of Mid Upper Palaeolithic European Russia

, 2017
Palaeolithic burials are few and far between, and establishing their chronology is crucial to gaining a broader understanding of the period. A new programme of radiocarbon dating has provided a revised age estimate for the Palaeolithic burial at Kostënki
Thomas Higham, Bessudnov, Alexander A., Dinnis, R, Alexander A. Bessudnov, Bessudnov, AA, Deviese, Thibaut, Natasha Reynolds, Dinnis, Rob, Higham, Thibaut, Reynolds, N, Higham, T, Higham, Thomas, Deviese, TA, Deviese, Thibaut A., Thibaut Devièse, Reynolds, Natasha, Rob Dinnis   +16 more
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Building phenotypic character matrices for phylogenetic inference: exploration of 35 years of practice

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent methodological development in phylogenetic inference has focused predominantly on molecular data. However, renewed interest in other data types, particularly morphological data, has followed from the increased recognition of the power of total evidence and tip‐dating approaches, including fossil data, for inference of time‐scaled trees ...
Melanie J. Hopkins, Mark C. Nikolic, James D. Holmes, Daniela S. Monti, Ernesto E. Vargas‐Parra, Russell D.C. Bicknell, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Katherine Jordan‐Burmeister, John R. Paterson, Shravya Srivastava‐Losey   +9 more
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