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2002
The interior of the Arabian peninsula was, as it is today, hyperarid. Despite its aridity, the area supported a variety of scattered plant covers and grasses. Small lakes created by runoff from stabilized dunes provided regular sources of water for animals and humans. A great diversity of arid-adapted animal species was present, including oryx, gazelle,
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The interior of the Arabian peninsula was, as it is today, hyperarid. Despite its aridity, the area supported a variety of scattered plant covers and grasses. Small lakes created by runoff from stabilized dunes provided regular sources of water for animals and humans. A great diversity of arid-adapted animal species was present, including oryx, gazelle,
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Mind, Brain, and the Upper Paleolithic
2005Abstract Shortly after Steven Pinker published How the Mind Works (1997), I saw him being interviewed on television by science commentator Jay lngram.1 As I recall the occasion, the host began with something like the following words: “Here is a person who just has written a book called How the Brain Works.
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Siberian Early Upper Paleolithic
2001relative time period: Follows Siberian Mousterian tradition, precedes Siberian Middle Upper Paleolithic ...
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Southeast Asia Upper Paleolithic
2001absolute time period: c. 40,000–10,000 b.p. On the Southeast Asian mainland (where it grades at various dates into the Hoabinhian), but continuing to 3500 b.p. without technological change in much of Indonesia (where it is replaced quite sharply by Neolithic cultures).
Peter N. Peregrine, Peter Bellwood
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Siberian Middle Upper Paleolithic
2001relative time period: Follows Siberian Early Upper Paleolithic tradition, precedes Siberian Late Upper Paleolithic ...
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Southern Asia Upper Paleolithic
2002The Upper Paleolithic climate in Southern Asia ranged, in general, from Mediterranean to arid and relatively hot. Periodic cycles of dry and humid conditions are suggested by some climatic studies in the region. Forests covered much of the area in the early Holocene, being replaced by grasslands later in the tradition.
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On Upper Paleolithic Engraving
Current Anthropology, 1974Mary Aiken Littauer +2 more
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2002
At the technocultural change from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic, climatic conditions of South Asia were generally tropical and humid. But the development of blade-based culture evidenced arid and hot conditions. The paleoclimatic studies carried out in the Thar desert of western India indicate that short climatic cycles of dry and ...
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At the technocultural change from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic, climatic conditions of South Asia were generally tropical and humid. But the development of blade-based culture evidenced arid and hot conditions. The paleoclimatic studies carried out in the Thar desert of western India indicate that short climatic cycles of dry and ...
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