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Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus [PDF]

, 2014
Over the past several decades a variety of models have been proposed to explain perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans.
Adler, Daniel S., Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Bar‐Oz, Guy, Belfer‐Cohen, Anna   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Stacy Carolin, Louise Humphrey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artists on the edge of the world: An integrated approach to the study of Magdalenian engraved stone plaquettes from Jersey (Channel Islands).

PLoS ONE, 2020
The Upper Palaeolithic is characterised by the appearance of iconographic expressions most often depicting animals, including anthropomorphic forms, and geometric signs.
Silvia M Bello, Edward Blinkhorn, Andrew Needham, Martin Bates, Sarah Duffy, Aimée Little, Matt Pope, Beccy Scott, Andrew Shaw, Mark D Welch, Tim Kinnaird, Lisa Millar, Ruth Robinson, Chantal Conneller   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early evidence of stone tool use in bone working activities at Qesem Cave, Israel [PDF]

, 2016
For a long while, the controversy surrounding several bone tools coming from pre-Upper Palaeolithic contexts favoured the view of Homo sapiens as the only species of the genus Homo capable of modifying animal bones into specialised tools.
Barkai, Ran, Blasco, Ruth, CRISTIANI, Emanuela, Gopher, Avi, LEMORINI, Cristina, Nunziante Cesaro, Stella, Rosell, Jordi, VENDITTI, FLAVIA, Zupancich, Andrea   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

First luminescence chronology of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic of Eastern Kazakhstan at Ushbulak [PDF]

, 2023
Redzhep Kurbanov, Г. Д. Павленок, V. A. Ulyanov, В. М. Харевич, Жакен Таймагамбетов, Daria Semikolennykh, А.А. Anoikin   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Palaeolithic in Transcarpathia (Ukraine) and the different use of various lithic raw material outcrops and sources

UISPP Journal, 2023
The present article proposes a new approach for the detailed analysis of lithic raw material sources and their use by various human groups during the period from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Early Upper Palaeolithic in Transcarpathia, western Ukraine ...
Yuri E. Demidenko, Béla Rácz
doaj   +1 more source

Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Artistas y cazadores de ciervos : el papel del ciervo en el arte y la caza del Paleolítico Superior Cantábrico

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2008
El ciervo fue el animal prioritario en las prácticas de caza para las comunidades paleolíticas cantábricas y al mismo tiempo una de las especies más representadas en el Arte paleolítico.
Mario Menéndez Fernández, José Manuel Quesada López   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source