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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Investigating why hominins adopted particular flake technologies during the Mid‐to‐Late Pleistocene is essential to understanding patterns of lithic innovation. This period witnessed the emergence of Levallois technologies (~350–250 ka) and later blades, each “replacing” earlier forms.
Anna Mika, Alastair Key
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Fox dietary ecology as a tracer of human impact on Pleistocene ecosystems.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Nowadays, opportunistic small predators, such as foxes (Vulpes vulpes and Vulpes lagopus), are well known to be very adaptable to human modified ecosystems. However, the timing of the start of this phenomenon in terms of human impact on ecosystems and of
Chris Baumann +3 more
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Obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic of Iberia [PDF]
, 2021 Joào Zilhão +8 more
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New light on Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic projectile weapon elements / Eclairages actuels sur quelques armatures de projectiles paléo-, méso- et néolithiques [PDF]
, 2008 Article disponible en versions française et anglaise (traduction de M. O'Farrell)International audienceThis text is the introduction to the proceedings of the colloquium "Recherches sur les armatures de projectiles du Paléolithique supérieur au ...
Cattelain, Pierre +5 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida +5 more
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The Early Upper Palaeolithic occupations of Willendorf II (Lower Austria): a contribution to the chronostratigraphic and cultural context of the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe [PDF]
, 2003 International audienceWillendorf II is one of the rare sites to offer a good chronostratigraphic framework for the period between 45,000 and 25,000 B.P. in Central Europe.
Teyssandier, Nicolas
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Excavating in breccia: new methods developed at the Benzú rockshelter [PDF]
, 2012 Excavators examining breccia deposits are faced with the prospect of extracting finds from a material akin to concrete. Nevertheless such deposits are sometimes the only witness of early Palaeolithic occupation.
Abad +21 more
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The Upper Palaeolithic of Europe [PDF]
, 2014 The Anatolian Middle Bronze Age (MBA) is roughly contemporary with the Isin-Larsa Period followed by the Old Babylonian Kingdom in southern Mesopotamia, the Old Assyrian Period in northern Mesopotamia, the Syrian Middle Bronze I-II Period characterised by urban centres such as Ebla, Mari and the kingdom of Yamkhad, and the Middle Kingdom to Second ...
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Boreas, EarlyView.This study investigates the species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe, specifically within the territory of present‐day Ukraine, during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The research is based on the comprehensive revision of skeletal remains found at archaeological sites.
Leonid Gorobets +3 more
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