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Recent origin of low trabecular bone density in modern humans [PDF]
Humans are unique, compared with our closest living relatives (chimpanzees) and early fossil hominins, in having an enlarged body size and lower limb joint surfaces in combination with a relatively gracile skeleton (i.e., lower bone mass for our body ...
Bernhard Zipfel +11 more
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Black in Impressionism and Post‐Impressionism: Art, Color Vision, and Psychophysics
Black has engendered controversy in 19th Century color theory and in Impressionist and Post‐Impresssionist painting. The neural mechanisms of blackness perception are being revealed through contemporary psychophysics. ABSTRACT From Paleolithic cave art to modern abstraction, artists have used black not merely as a neutral tone, but as a powerful ...
John S. Werner
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ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White +5 more
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The paper presents unknown or poorly investigated sites of the Middle and Late Paleolithic found under different circumstances along the southern coast of the Bay and in the delta of Don.
Zorov Yuriy N. +2 more
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Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
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L’exploitation des cétacés au Paléolithique récent
The archeology of the foreshore in the Late Paleolithic is difficult to approach, because most of the current seashore lines are far removed from the position they had at that times.
Jean-Marc Pétillon
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Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive archaeology and the evolution of the human mind [PDF]
Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Edited by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A.
Coolidge, Frederick Lawrence +1 more
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From Foraging to Agriculture [PDF]
We consider a world in which the mode of food production, foraging or agriculture, is endogenous, and in which technology grows exogenously. Using a recent model of coalition formation, we allow individuals to rationally form cooperative communities ...
Gordon M. Myers, Nicolas Marceau
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From the initial researches in the 1950’s, the geological and archeological sequences preserved on the Bistrița terraces have been constantly thought to provide a remarkably complete chronicle of the Upper Paleolithic in eastern Romania.
Mircea Anghelinu +2 more
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La Transición Paleolítica medio-superior en la región centro-oriental de la Córnisa Cantábrica
Con este trabajo, en homenaje al profesor Eduardo Ripoll Perelló, queremos presentar algunos de los datos más recientes sobre la transición entre el Paleolítico medio y el superior en la región centro-oriental de la cornisa cantábrica.
Federico Bernaldo de Quirós +3 more
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