Two Acheuleans, two humankinds. From 1.5 to 0.85 Ma at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopian highlands) [PDF]
, 2017 The Acheulean is the longest-lasting human cultural record, spanning approximately 1.5 Ma and three continents. The most comprehensive sequences are found in East Africa, where, in large-scale syntheses, the Lower Pleistocene Acheulean (LPA) has often ...
Gallotti, Rosalia, Mussi, Margherita
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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]
, 2017 The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha +21 more
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A Middle Paleolithic Settlement from the Northern Levant: The Finds of Üçağızlı II Cave
Anadolu Araştırmaları, 2021 Üçağızlı II Cave, a Middle Paleolithic site on the Mediterranean coast of Hatay Province, Turkey, is partly collapsed and, based on uranium series dates, is dated between 75,000 and 42,000 BP.
İsmail Baykara +3 more
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Early Upper Paleolithic Serpentine Ornaments from Ust-Karakol, Northwestern Altai
Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 2020 We describe the spatial context, technology, and possible function of serpentine-antigorite artifacts discovered at the Ust-Karakol Early Upper Paleolithic site in the Altai Mountains. The ornaments were made locally, with a single manufacturing process.
A. Fedorchenko +3 more
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Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Landscapes and features of the everyday world were scarcely represented in Paleolithic art, especially those features associated with the human landscape (huts and campsites).
Marcos García-Diez, Manuel Vaquero
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Y Chromosomes of 40% Chinese Are Descendants of Three Neolithic Super-grandfathers [PDF]
Plos ONE 9(8): e105691 (2014), 2013 Demographic change of human populations is one of the central questions for delving into the past of human beings. To identify major population expansions related to male lineages, we sequenced 78 East Asian Y chromosomes at 3.9 Mbp of the non-recombining region (NRY), discovered >4,000 new SNPs, and identified many new clades.
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Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago
Science, 2019 The early occupation of America The Cooper's Ferry archaeological site in western North America has provided evidence for the pattern and time course of the early peopling of the Americas. Davis et al.
L. Davis +16 more
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Prevalence of cranial trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic humans.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2020 OBJECTIVES This study characterizes patterns of cranial trauma prevalence in a large sample of Upper Paleolithic (UP) fossil specimens (40,000-10,000 BP).
Judith Beier +3 more
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Refits, cobbles, and fire: approaching the temporal nature of an expedient Gravettian lithic assemblage from Lagar Velho (Leiria, Portugal). [PDF]
Upper Paleolithic lithic assemblages have traditionally been considered a paramount example of the high level of complexity characterizing the technological behavior of prehistoric modern humans. The diversity and standardization of tools, as well as the
Alonso Fernández, Elvira Susana +5 more
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The decorative practice based on natural forms in the Paleolithic of the Urals
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018 In recent years, archaeologists have found objects of decorative activity based on natural forms of bone and stone which were manufactured by men in the Ural-Volga region at the Upper Paleolithic monuments in the Kama area (Shirovanovo site), in the ...
Kotov V.G.
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