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Dating the landscape evolution around the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The Chauvet cave (UNESCO World Heritage site, France) is located in the Ardèche Gorge, a unique physical and cultural landscape. Its setting within the gorge—overlooking a meander cutoff containing a natural arch called the Pont d’Arc—is also remarkable.
Kim Genuite   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
External auditory exostoses (EAE) have been noted among the Neandertals and a few other Pleistocene humans, but until recently they have been discussed primary as minor pathological lesions with possible auditory consequences.
Erik Trinkaus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Following the fat: food and mobility in the European Upper Palaeolithic 45,000 to 18,000 BP

open access: yes, 2008
This article briefly reviews evidence describing the environmental context of Upper Palaeolithic occupation in Europe, and proposes that human population movement during winter and spring was limited due to problems obtaining ...
Pryor, A.J.E.
core   +1 more source

Trans-epochal variations in body length in different regions of Europe from the Upper Paleolithic to Middle Ages (from paleoanthropological data) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
In the present work, the study of variation in height in different periods (from the Upper Paleolithic to medieval period) in the territory of Europe was carried out.
Kuznetsova O.A.
doaj   +1 more source

The emergence and complexification of symbolic practices in the Homo lineage: an archaeological and cognitive perspective Émergence et complexification des pratiques symboliques dans la lignée Homo : une approche archéologique et cognitive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sculpture education program / Upper Iowa Univesity

open access: yes, 1998
[Title], Upper Iowa University Digital Archives, [Reference URL].
Upper Iowa University
core   +1 more source

THE BURIALS IN PALEOLITHIC AGE AND THE CONCEPT OF DEATH / PALEOLİTİK ÇAĞDA MEZARLAR VE ÖLÜM KAVRAMI [PDF]

open access: yesFolklor/Edebiyat, 2016
There are discussions about the concept of death, earliest grave applications and the purpose of primitives to bury their dead. Findspots which are associated with symbolic world of Paleolithic Age primitives and defined as graves are quite interesting.
Murat Karakoç*
doaj  

Gough's Cave and biomolecular archaeology: a story of evolving interpretation Archéologie biomoléculaire à la grotte de Gough's Cave : une interprétation en constante évolution

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
wiley   +1 more source

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