A LATE PLEISTOCENE RODENT FAUNA (MAMMALIA: RODENTIA) FROM HADŽI PRODANOVA CAVE NEAR IVANJICA (WESTERN SERBIA) by KATARINA BOGIĆEVIĆ, DRAŽENKO NENADIĆ, STEFAN MILOŠEVIĆ, DUŠAN MIHAILOVIĆ, STEFAN VLASTIĆ, RADULE TOŠOVIĆ

“…Hadži Prodanova Cave in western Serbia is a multilayered site which, in addition to Palaeolithic tools, has yielded a relatively rich fauna of small and large vertebrates. …”
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La morphologie externe et interne de la région supra-orbitaire est-elle corrélée à des contraintes biomécaniques ? Analyses structurales des populations d’Homo sapiens d’Afalou Bou... by Antoine Balzeau, Jackie Badawi-Fayad

“…The purpose of this study was to analyse and compare the external morphology of the supraorbital and maxillary regions as well as the variability of frontal pneumatisation in a sample of anatomically modern humans of the upper Palaeolithic of Afalou Bou Rhummel (Algeria) and Taforalt (Morocco), who underwent extraction of upper incisors. …”
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Recent Research on Neolithic and Predynastic Development in the Egyptian Nile Valley by Agnieszka Mączyńska

“…His interests went beyond the Palaeolithic to encompass later periods during which the foundations were laid for the unified Egyptian state. …”
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The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic as the pivotal transformation of human history by Trevor Watkins

“…The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transformation take us out of the world of Palaeolithic mobile foraging into a new world, in which the scale and organisation of the social group and the tempo of socio-cultural evolution were transformed. …”
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Le relevé interdisciplinaire d’art pariétal paléolithique en trois dimensions : intérêt, méthode et premiers résultats by Priscilia Barbuti, Oscar Fuentes, Stéphane Konik, Geneviève Pinçon

“…Since the first discoveries of Palaeolithic art in France in the late 19th century, surveying cave walls has remained the archaeological key element of the scientific process. …”
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Enforcing Ecological Borders between the Human and the Nonhuman: Adapting Pygmalion’s Benevolent Galatea into Frankenstein’s and Contemporary Monsters by Robert Geal

“…These texts use repeated narrative and thematic topoi that are adapted to reflect historical attitudes towards human/nonhuman borders. Palaeolithic culture produced art which demonstrated a lack of borders between the human and the nonhuman, but following the Agricultural Revolution, ecophobic cultures produced fictional narratives warning about the monstrous consequences of transgressing human/nonhuman borders. …”
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Neanderthal Traces in Aegean Region by Kadriye ÖZÇELİK

“…Especially Denizli (Honaz, Aydınlar) and Kütahya (Omartepe Sırtı and Kureyşler Dam Lake Basin) are the areas where the highly characteristic chipped stone industries belong to the Mousterian industry. The Middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) industry produced of high-quality and far origin int in Denizli includes biface, levallois and discoid cores along with side scrapers, typical mousterian point, akes and knapping waste products. …”
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North African Origins of Symbolically Mediated Behaviour and the Aterian by Barton, N, d'Errico, F

“…The appearance of personal ornaments in the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age of North Africa has been widely recognised as indicating that archaic modern humans in this region had developed sophisticated ways of sharing, storing and transmitting coded information within and across groups. …”

Time immemorial: The landscape archaeology of Dickett’s Field, Hampshire ‘Why be high? 500000 years occupation on Dickett’s Field Hampshire by William, S, Professor William Scott-Jackson

“…Here, spatial analysis is used to determine the cognitive locational criteria of people of three distinct periods, Lower/Middle Palaeolithic (lithic scatters), later prehistoric (banked enclosure) and Roman (road) on the Dickett’s Field high-level plateau. …”

La Peña de Santana (Segovia, España): cazadores-recolectores magdalenienses en el interior de la península ibérica by David Álvarez-Alonso, María De Andrés-Herrero, Andrés Díez Herrero

“…This is a relevant finding, which contributes to considering new research paths on settlement areas in interior areas of the Peninsula at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic, and its relationships with the Cantabrian and Levantine areas. …”
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The Mousterian lithic assemblage of the Ciota Ciara cave (Piedmont, Northern Italy): Exploitation and conditioning of raw materials by Sara Daffara, Marta Arzarello, Gabriele L.F. Berruti, Giulia Berruto, Davide Bertè, Claudio Berto, Anna I. Casini

“…It is the most important evidence of a Middle Palaeolithic settlement in Piedmont: the cave was used by Homo neanderthalensis during the OIS 5, in a mild-humid period, as proven by faunal remains. …”
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The Microvertebrates of Shanidar Cave: Preliminary Taphonomic Findings by Emily Tilby, Preston Miracle, Graeme Barker

“…Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, is one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in Southwest Asia. This is due to the long sequence of hominin occupation of the cave and the discovery of multiple Neanderthal individuals from the original Solecki excavations (1951–1960) and recent excavations (2014 to present). …”
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Sex with robots: A not-so-niche market for disabled and older persons by Koumpis Adamantios, Gees Thomas

“…As is the case with pornography, the concept of sex robots may be criticized, yet it has deep roots in human civilization, with erotic depictions that date back to the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ages. So the need for an artefact that would offer sexually relevant functionality is not new at all. …”
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Considerations on the mechanisms of integration of the dead in the early sedentary societies of the Near East (Natufian, 15-11.6 ka cal BP) by Fanny Bocquentin, Camille Noûs

“…With the beginning of sedentary life in the Near East, the practice of burying the dead, which was exceptional throughout the Palaeolithic period, became widespread. From then on, an enduring relationship became established between the living and the dead coexisting in the same settlement, and it seems that the boundary that separated them began to blur. …”
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Techno-functional Study of the Personal Ornaments in Lignite of the Boira Fusca Cave (Cuorgnè, Torino-Italy) by Stefano Viola, Giorgio Gaj, Dino Del Caro, Marie Besse

“…The site demonstrates a chrono-cultural sequence which extends from the late Palaeolithic to the Modern era. Particularly during the first phases of the Metal Ages (Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age- c. 3400-1600 BC) the cave was a burial site, similar to others in the Alpine area. …”
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Wolf–Dog–Human: Companionship Based on Common Social Tools by Kurt Kotrschal

“…The domesticated wolves called dogs are particularly close companion animals. Both Palaeolithic humans and wolves were hypercursorial hunters, cooperating in complex and prosocial ways within their clans with respect to hunting, raising offspring, and defending against conspecific and heterospecific competitors and predators. …”
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Reassessing the concept of the ‘Neolithic’ in the Jomon of Western Japan by Simon Kaner, Takeshi Ishikawa

“…The earliest pottery usage occurs in late Palaeolithic contexts. Holocene foragers lived in stable, permanent village settlements and constructed large scale monuments, and the first real ‘agriculture’ arrived as part of a cultural package which also included metallurgy. …”
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The early Lateglacial re-colonization of Britain: new radiocarbon evidence from Gough's Cave, southwest England by Jacobi, R, Higham, T

“…Gough's Cave is still Britain's most significant Later Upper Palaeolithic site. New ultrafiltered radiocarbon determinations on bone change our understanding of its occupation, by demonstrating that this lasted for only a very short span of time, at the beginning of the Lateglacial Interstadial (Greenland Interstadial 1 (GI-1: B⊘lling and Aller⊘d)). …”

Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it by Whitehouse, H

“…These findings also shed light on changes in ritual life from the palaeolithic to the first farmers and from archaic states to the first moralizing religions. …”

Combustion at the late Early Pleistocene site of Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Murcia, Spain) by Walker, M, Anesin, D, Angelucci, D, Avilés-Fernández, A, Berna, F, Buitrago-López, A, Fernández-Jalvo, Y, Haber-Uriarte, M, López-Jiménez, A, López-Martínez, M, Martín-Lerma, I, Ortega-Rodrigáñez, J, Polo-Camacho, J, Rhodes, S, Richter, D, Rodríguez-Estrella, T, Schwenninger, J-L, Skinner, A

“…The results provide new insight into Early Palaeolithic use of fire and its significance for human evolution.…”