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Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Methodological advances in dating the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition provide a better understanding of the replacement of local Neanderthal populations by Anatomically Modern Humans.
Ana B Marín-Arroyo, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Lawrence G Straus, Jennifer R Jones, Marco de la Rasilla, Manuel R González Morales, Michael Richards, Jesús Altuna, Koro Mariezkurrena, David Ocio   +9 more
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The three waves: Rethinking the structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
The Neronian is a lithic tradition recognized in the Middle Rhône Valley of Mediterranean France now directly linked to Homo sapiens and securely dated to 54,000 years ago (ka), pushing back the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 10 ka. This incursion
Ludovic Slimak
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The absolute chronology of Boker Tachtit (Israel) and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
Significance The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) marks a distinct cultural change possibly related to Homo sapiens dispersals into Eurasia. New radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dates from the recent excavations at Boker Tachtit, Negev ...
Boaretto E, Hernandez M, Goder-Goldberger M, Aldeias V, Regev L, Caracuta V, McPherron SP, Hublin JJ, Weiner S, Barzilai O.   +9 more
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Delayed increase in stone tool cutting-edge productivity at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in southern Jordan [PDF]

Nature Communications
Although the lithic cutting-edge productivity has long been recognized as a quantifiable aspect of prehistoric human technological evolution, there remains uncertainty how the productivity changed during the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition.
Seiji Kadowaki, Joe Yuichiro Wakano, Toru Tamura, Ayami Watanabe, Masato Hirose, Eiki Suga, Kazuhiro Tsukada, Oday Tarawneh, Sate Massadeh   +8 more
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Climate-driven habitat shifts of high-ranked prey species structure Late Upper Paleolithic hunting [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Changing climates in the past affected both human and faunal population distributions, thereby structuring human diets, demography, and cultural evolution. Yet, separating the effects of climate-driven and human-induced changes in prey species abundances
Peter M. Yaworsky, Shumon T. Hussain, Felix Riede   +2 more
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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations.
Juan I Morales, Artur Cebrià, Aitor Burguet-Coca, Juan Luis Fernández-Marchena, Gala García-Argudo, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, María Soto, Sahra Talamo, José-Miguel Tejero, Josep Vallverdú, Josep Maria Fullola   +10 more
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Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician Industry and South Moravian Sites: a Homo sapiens Late Initial Upper Paleolithic with Bohunician Industrial Generic Roots in Europe. [PDF]

J Paleolit Archaeol, 2023
This article re-examines the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ) industry, a well-known Early Upper Paleolithic complex in northern Europe. It is widely thought that the LRJ was produced by late Neanderthals and that its industrial roots are in late
Demidenko YE, Škrdla P.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Reconstructing Middle and Upper Paleolithic human mobility in Portuguese Estremadura through laser ablation strontium isotope analysis. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Significance Laser ablation MC-ICP-MS allows in situ strontium isotope data to be obtained for incrementally formed bioapatites such as enamel with extremely high spatial resolution.
Linscott B, Pike AWG, Angelucci DE, Cooper MJ, Milton JS, Matias H, Zilhão J.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

First record of the sound produced by the oldest Upper Paleolithic seashell horn. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2021
A prehistoric conch shell converted into a musical instrument makes its first sounds in 18,000 years. Anthropologists and ethnomusicologists assert that there is no society without song, and more specifically, there is no ritual or celebration without ...
Fritz C, Tosello G, Fleury G, Kasarhérou E, Walter P, Duranthon F, Gaillard P, Tardieu J.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Nobody's land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. [PDF]

Sci Adv
The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH).
Sala N, Alcaraz-Castaño M, Arriolabengoa M, Martínez-Pillado V, Pantoja-Pérez A, Rodríguez-Hidalgo A, Téllez E, Cubas M, Castillo S, Arnold LJ, Demuro M, Duval M, Arteaga-Brieba A, Llamazares J, Ochando J, Cuenca-Bescós G, Marín-Arroyo AB, Seijo MM, Luque L, Alonso-Llamazares C, Arlegi M, Rodríguez-Almagro M, Calvo-Simal C, Izquierdo B, Cuartero F, Torres-Iglesias L, Agudo-Pérez L, Arribas A, Carrión JS, Magri D, Zhao JX, Pablos A.   +31 more
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