Delayed increase in stone tool cutting-edge productivity at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in southern Jordan [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAlthough 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 +8 more
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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 +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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New data on the formation of local variations in the Upper Paleolithic of the Caucasus [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 As of today, very few Upper Paleolithic sites are known on both the southern and the northern slopes of the Caucasus. Their materials allow tracing settlement dynamics in the region from 40/39 to 20 cal ka BP.
Golovanova L.V. +2 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 +2 more
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Ancient DNA from the Upper Paleolithic mammoth ivory of Hohle Fels, Germany [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHohle Fels, a cave in southwestern Germany, hosts one of the richest and best-preserved Upper Paleolithic ivory assemblages, with some of the earliest examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornamentation.
Kelsey N. Moreland +7 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 +10 more
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Identity and mobility through personal ornaments in Upper Paleolithic cantabrian hunter-gatherer societies: Insights from Llonín cave (Asturias, Spain). [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe use of personal ornaments is considered a milestone in human cognitive evolution and the development of complex behavior. The Cantabrian region in the north of the Iberian Peninsula served as a hub of occupation and intergroup contact throughout the ...
Daniel Pérez-García de Los Salmones +5 more
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Correction: Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194708.].
Ana B Marín-Arroyo +9 more
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The absolute chronology of Boker Tachtit (Israel) and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Elisabetta Boaretto +2 more
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