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A high-precision chronological model for the decorated Upper Paleolithic cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche, France [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016
Hervé Bocherens   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Tosor and Ak-Ölön Sites, a Review of Two Open-Air Palaeolithic Sites in the High-Altitude Basin of Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
This short review examines early Paleolithic research in Kyrgyzstan, a previously understudied region withinCentral Asia. Paleolithic investigations in Kyrgyzstan began in 1953 during the Soviet era by the Kyrgyz RepublicAcademy of Sciences.
Nezahat Ceylan, Oktay Karatas
doaj   +1 more source

Paleobiological Perspectives on the Early Upper Paleolithic Human Transition in the Northwestern Old World

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2001
The emerging consensus that the emergence of modern humans in the northwestern Old World involved temporally and geographically varying degrees of admixture between Neandertals and early modern humans within the early Upper Paleolithic provides the ...
Erik Trinkaus
doaj   +1 more source

The conquest of the dark spaces: An experimental approach to lighting systems in Paleolithic caves.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Artificial lighting was a crucial physical resource for expanding complex social and economic behavior in Paleolithic groups. Furthermore, the control of fire allowed the development of the first symbolic behavior in deep caves, around 176 ky BP.
Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paleolithic of the Kazan Volga Region: research history and new data

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2022
Main stages of the search for Paleolithic sites on the territory of the Kazan Volga region from the second half of the XIX century to the current moment are presented in the paper.
Madina Sh. Galimova
doaj   +1 more source

THE SURROUNDINGS AND THE AGE OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC SITE ON SUSAK ISLAND [PDF]

open access: yesActa Geographica Debrecina. Landscape & Environment Series, 2016
Our study investigates the paleoenvironmental conditions of an Upper Paleolithic site found in the excavation of the North Adriatic Susak Island. Our research explores the range of the loess and loesslike sediments deposited on rudist limestone which is
FERENC SCHWEITZER, ÉVA KIS
doaj   +1 more source

Shirataki obsidian exploitation and circulation in prehistoric northern Japan

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2014
Presently, the total number of archaeological obsidian sources in Japan is more than 80, and among them, 21 are in Hokkaido, northern part of the Japanese archipelago (Izuho and Sato 2007).
Miyuki Yakushige, Hiroyuki Sato
doaj   +1 more source

Intra-assemblage variation in the macro-blade assemblage from the 1963 excavation at Shuidonggou locality 1, northern China, in the context of regional variation.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
The emergence of the Upper Paleolithic and regional variability in early Upper Paleolithic industries are prominent topics in Paleolithic archaeology, with special relevance to the dispersal and differentiation of early modern human cultures across ...
Feng Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occupation et gestion du territoire bergeracois entre 250 et 35 kA : essai de synthèse techno-économique

open access: yesGallia Préhistoire, 2022
. In this work, we propose to examine human activities from 72 occupations within a well-defined territory, the Bergeracois, during the Pleistocene between 250 kyr and 35 kyr.
Illuminada Ortega †   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The “Upper Paleolithic” of South Arabia

open access: yes, 2009
The practice of assigning names to archaeological periods in Arabia is inherently problematic. Just as the Arabian subcontinent is the geographic bridge between Africa and Eurasia; similarly, it is wedged between the bifurcation of Eurasian and African taxonomic schema.
Rose, Jeffrey I., Usik, Vitaly I.
openaire   +2 more sources

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