The function of small tools in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene: The case of Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis, Greece) by Juliette Guibert-Cardin, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Elisa Nicoud, Sylvie Beyries

“…Small flake industries are a commonly identified component of Lower Paleolithic archaeological assemblages in Eurasia. …”
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Small tools within Mode 2 technology in the Lower Palaeolithic of Italy: use-wear analysis of the chipped stone tools assemblage of the Latium site of Fontana Ranuccio (Italy) by Flavia Marinelli, Cristina Lemorini, Daniela Zampetti

“…Their role in the lithic assemblages of the Late Lower Paleolithic allows to reconsider the common idea that the bifaces are the unique techno-cultural markers of the Acheulean chronological and cultural phase. …”
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The Significance of Air Circulation and Hearth Location at Paleolithic Cave Sites by Yafit Kedar, Ran Barkai

“…Hearths were constructed and used at Paleolithic cave and rockshelter sites in Africa, Europe and Asia as early as the late Lower Paleolithic period. The advantages of the use of fire have been widely researched for the last decades. …”
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Manual of Cupule Replication Technology by Giriraj Kumar, Ram Krishna

“…The antiquity of cupules extends back to the Lower Paleolithic in Asia and Africa, hundreds of thousand years ago. …”
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The prehistory of Biferno Valley (Molise): new contributions and interpretations by Arianna Sellitto, Carmen Maria Rosskopf, Antonella Minelli

“…The analyzed lithic assemblage embraces a period of time ranging from the Lower Paleolithic to the Neolithic. The data set underline a high methodological variability, which affected the lithic tools especially from the Middle Paleolithic period. …”
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La investigación de las primeras ocupaciones humanas en la región Cantábrica by David Álvarez Alonso

“…</p><p>The following article presents a historiographical synthesis of research on the Lower Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain. In summary shows the evolution of research on the early Cantabrian Palaeolithic, from the early twentieth century to the present research. …”
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Los orígenes del poblamiento Paleolítico en Europa : una visión bioestratigráfica by José Yavedra Sainz de los Terrreros

“…</p><p>In thiis paper the faunal representation of diferent European lower Paleolithic sites is discussed. The aim is to test the hypothesis that hominids might have crossed the Gibraltar straight in the earliest stages of the occupation of Europe. …”
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Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. by Emma M Finestone, Paul S Breeze, Sebastian F M Breitenbach, Nick Drake, Laura Bergmann, Farhod Maksudov, Akmal Muhammadiyev, Pete Scott, Yanjun Cai, Arina M Khatsenovich, Evgeny P Rybin, Gernot Nehrke, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia

“…During periodic intervals in the Middle Pleistocene, the local environment of arid Central Asia was likely a favorable habitat for paleolithic hominins and was frequented by Lower Paleolithic toolmakers producing bifaces.…”
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Late Acheulian Jaljulia - Early human occupations in the paleo-landscape of the central coastal plain of Israel. by Maayan Shemer, Noam Greenbaum, Nimer Taha, Lena Brailovsky-Rokser, Yael Ebert, Ron Shaar, Christophe Falgueres, Pierre Voinchet, Naomi Porat, Galina Faershtein, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Ran Barkai

“…The Lower Paleolithic Late Acheulian in the Levant marks a fascinating chapter in human cultural and biological evolution. …”
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Late Acheulian Jaljulia – Early human occupations in the paleo-landscape of the central coastal plain of Israel by Maayan Shemer, Noam Greenbaum, Nimer Taha, Lena Brailovsky-Rokser, Yael Ebert, Ron Shaar, Christophe Falgueres, Pierre Voinchet, Naomi Porat, Galina Faershtein, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Ran Barkai

“…The Lower Paleolithic Late Acheulian in the Levant marks a fascinating chapter in human cultural and biological evolution. …”
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High handaxe symmetry at the beginning of the European Acheulian: The data from la Noira (France) in context. by Radu Iovita, Inbal Tuvi-Arad, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Jackie Despriée, Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Jacques Bahain

“…This issue is also linked with another long-standing debate on the existence and behavioral, cognitive, and social meaning of a possibly chronological trend for increased handaxe symmetry throughout the Lower Paleolithic. The newly discovered sites can provide a link between the much older Acheulian in Africa and the Levant and the well-known assemblages from the later European Acheulian, enabling a rigorous testing of these hypotheses using modern morphometric methods. …”
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Cronologías altas, cronologías cortas : implicaciones en el debate del Paleolítico inferior Europeo by Juan Antonio Martos Romero

“…</p><p>In this paper are revised the arguments assumed by the different scholars in the discussion about the first settiement of Europe with the controversy arised between the called «long chronology» and «short chronology », and its implications in the debate of the Lower Paleolithic of Europe. In our opinión, chronological questions only can be discussed from a geographical context that includes África and the Next Orient. …”
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