Upper Palaeolithic
Lithic Variability and Techno-Economy of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in the Levant
... Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) of the Levant is commonly associated with Homo sapiens’ dispersal from Africa to Eurasia, which is characterised by substantial changes in material culture when compared to ...
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Patterns of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic land use in Central Lazio (Italy)
... Neandertal fi nds from the caves of Monte Circeo (e.g. Blanc 1957; Ascenzi 1990/91). Later excavations in other caves in Monte Circeo and in the Monti Ausoni yielded a wealth of archaeological and palaeontological ...
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Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottes, France.
... Recent analysis of clay minerals at Les Cott es revealed short local oscillations during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transi- tion towards more temperate and/or wetter conditions (Frouin et al., 2013), ...
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Refining 14C dating of bone >30,000 BP : establishing an accurate chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France.
... The debate about the complex issues of human development during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition period (45-35 ka BP) has been hampered by concerns about the reliability of the radiocarbon dating ...
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Testing of a single grain OSL chronology across the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Les Cottés (France)
... site of Les Cott es for single grain OSL dating because: 1) it is one of the rare sites where each of the industries that make up the important Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France is present ...
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A Final Upper Palaeolithic site at Nea Farm,Somerley, Hampshire (England) and some reflections on the occupation of Britain.
... More generally, the fragipan-like horizons are best explained by periglacial processes acting upon a Late Pleistocene soil. In thin section the remains of a weakly formed laminated/lenticular microfabric is visible in ...
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An incised shell object from Baradostian (Early Upper Palaeolithic) layers in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
... important Palaeolithic archaeological sequences in West ...(Upper Palaeolithic) layers in the cave, an incised land-snail shell fragment was ...Although Upper Palaeolithic ornaments are ...
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Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus
... Middle Palaeolithic populations and later Upper Palaeolithic groups that occupied the southern and northern Caucasus (see Golovanova and Doronichev 2003; Ad- ler and Tushabramishvili ...
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Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians
... Samples, sequencing and authenticity. Recent excavations of Satsurblia cave in Western Georgia yielded a human right temporal bone, dated to the Late Upper Palaeolithic 13,132–13,380 cal. BP. Following the ...
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Neither warm and moist, nor cold and arid: the ecology of the Mid Upper Palaeolithic
... Though this less intense version of the Mammoth Steppe dominated most of Europe, the actual sward species composition undoubtedly varied considerably from region to region. In other word[r] ...
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Investigating the Palaeolithic Landscapes and Archaeology of the Jizan and Asir Regions, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
... that Palaeolithic occupation of the region was not restricted to a single ...LSA/Upper Palaeolithic assemblages (Groucutt and Petraglia 2012) due to their depopulation during hyperarid ...
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Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response
... of Upper Palaeolithic imagery in French caves—using the technology then available—suggested a relationship between acoustic response and the location of visual ...of Palaeolithic motifs with acoustic ...
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Before and Beyond Representation: Towards an enactive conception of the Palaeolithic image
... the Upper Palaeolithic few people will question that human creativity and symbolic capacity have left an incontestable mark in the archaeological ...
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New data from the Middle Palaeolithic Cotencher cave (Swiss Jura): site formation, environment, and chronology
... the Palaeolithic sites in the studied ...early Upper Palaeolithic sites (Aurignacian, Gravettian), they are completely absent in the Jura Moun- tains (Leesch et ...the Upper Palae- olithic in ...
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Plant resource availability and management in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Greece
... the Upper Palaeolithic assemblages of Franchthi and Schisto compared to Theopetra, where these two species have a much more limited presence, outnumbered by seeds of wild ...
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Behaviour and cognition in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: introduction
... Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record ...Lower/Middle Palaeolithic record and the anatomically modern human Upper Palaeolithic record ...
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Handaxe typology and Lower Palaeolithic cultural development: ficrons, cleavers and two giant handaxes from Cuxton
... Lower Palaeolithic as a fallacy whereby "discarded stones are seen as designed tools, rather than the accidental products of the mechanics of stone fracture" (Davidson 1991: ...
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Bleu Arabia: Palaeolithic and underwater survey in SW Saudi Arabia and the role of coasts in Pleistocene dispersals
... recent Palaeolithic survey on land, and un- derwater exploration in the vicinity of the Farasan Islands, and consider the further implications for wider interpretation of dispersal ...
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Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales.
... Palaeolithic archaeology, as the time-scale overlaps with the late Pleistocene geological period. Rudwick, writing as an historian of geology, largely avoids mentioning human origins in his discussions of the ...
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Favourable effects of consuming a Palaeolithic-type diet on characteristics of the metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled pilot-study
... and diastolic BP, where in uncontrolled studies with healthy volunteers [14,15] as well as in controlled studies with diabetic patients [17] lowering of BP has also been reported. Contrarily, BP lowering was not observed ...
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