The Middle Palaeolithic
Use wear analysis of quartzite lithic implements from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lagoa do Bando (Central Portugal)
... The Middle Palaeolithic site of Lagoa do Bando is an open air site in a lacustrian context located at 570 m ...a Middle Palaeolithic lithic assemblage mainly composed of fine grained quartzite ...
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The Middle Palaeolithic: a point of inflection
... They are less apparent in the Early Middle Palaeolithic (Roebroeks and Tuffreau. this volume) and apparently absent in the Lower Palaeolithic, where a transect over a huge ecological gra[r] ...
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The Place of the Neanderthal Dead: Multiple burial sites and mortuary space in the Middle Palaeolithic of Eurasia
... Existing information on possible Neanderthal burials is available in several publications, both overviews and site documentation... natural features o[r] ...
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New data from the Middle Palaeolithic Cotencher cave (Swiss Jura): site formation, environment, and chronology
... oldest Palaeolithic sites of Switzerland and is known for its rich faunal and Mousterian artefacts, the latter suggesting one or several passages of Neanderthal hunter–gatherer ...the Middle and Upper ...
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Patterns of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic land use in Central Lazio (Italy)
... the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, we must come to a slightly different conclusion than the earlier conclusion by Kamermans ...the Middle Palaeolithic inhabitants practised frequent ...
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From west to east: Lower and Middle Palaeolithic bone retouchers in Northern France
... Lower Palaeolithic and into the Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals inhabited northern France, and many archaeological sites preserve accumulations of various lithic industries, sometimes associ- ated ...
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Evolution and the Palaeolithic
... the Middle Palaeolithic or Middle Stone Age, for the entire Old World, because of their abundance and the virtual absence of artefacts made from other materi- ...
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Palaeolithic Patriarchy: To What Extent are Documentary Audiences Consuming an Androcentric Image of the Palaeolithic?
... Men bringing home food to their waiting women is a common enough theme to constitute an additional schema: Man-the-Provider. Be it gathered, scavenged, fished or hunted foodstuffs, men routinely provide or even feed it ...
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Testing of a single grain OSL chronology across the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Les Cottés (France)
... the Middle Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France is important to help understand when, where and how Neanderthals have been replaced by Homo ...the Middle and Upper ...
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Palaeolithic subsistence and organic technology in the Swabian Jura
... changes from Upper to Middle Palaeolithic layers. The abundance of Mammoth, Horse and Reindeer declines and the percentages of Cave Bear, Cervids, small ruminants, and middle-sized Carnivores ...
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Plant resource availability and management in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Greece
... the Middle Palaeolithic period derives mainly through pollen diagrams from several parts across the country indicating various oscillations between steppe, forest-steppe and forest communities for the time ...
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Neanderthals and their predecessors Lower and Middle Palaeolithic
... When we lump together the scarce evidence from 500,000 years of occupation in an attempt to typify 'the' Lower and Middle Palaeolithic we arrive at an 'episodic' use of locations and, at[r] ...
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Behaviour and cognition in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: introduction
... Finally, although the emphasis here is, with the exception of Cochrane, on undisturbed horizons, this should not be taken as an indication that the more abundant evidence from transported contexts such as fluvial gravels ...
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Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus
... them were equally adept at exploiting a wide range of eco- logical niches as and when they chose to on the basis of a deep understanding of the local environment and the per- manent and seasonal distribution of key ...
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A view to a kill. Investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an Optimal Foraging perspective
... of Middle Palaeolithic archae- ology, the versatility of the stone tools may point to an absence of specialised technology in order to hunt specific ...
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Stone Tool Assemblage Richness during the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in France
... Having concluded that richness is not correlated with sample size across their assemblages, Simek & Price (1990) conducted two additional analyses of this variable. The first of these used regression techniques to ...
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Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia
... 5. JKF-12 lithic technology JKF-12 represents the densest concentration of lithic artefacts at a raw material source in the Jubbah area. The quartzite bed at the site is the thickest identified in the area. It is also ...
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Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: introduction
... One of the main new research topics concerned aspects of early settle- ment systems, both on site level, as in the thorough excavation of a large Meso- lithic site near the Bergumermeer,[r] ...
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THE PALAEOLITHIC SOCIETIES OF EUROPE
... of Palaeolithic Europe, has received some ...the Palaeolithic has never achieved the same research prominence as studies of the subsistence economy, the spatial analysis of settlements, cave art or lithic ...
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THEMES IN PALAEOANTHROPOLOGY AND PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY
... 1) the interpretive history of palaeoanthropology and palaeolithic archaeology. 2) aspects of primate behaviour, adaptation and evolution. 3) recent hunter-gatherer lifeways and the u[r] ...
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