Provenance of Neolithic Stone Artefacts through Minimally Invasive or Absolutely Non-Destructive Petroarchaeometric Investigations: Some Cases from Calabria (Southern Italy) by Pasquale Acquafredda, Vincenzo Festa, Francesca Micheletti, Annamaria Fornelli

“…In the present work, more than one hundred and thirty lithic artefacts rediscovered in several archaeological sites dating from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages from Calabria (Southern Italy) were petroarchaeometrically characterised through minimally invasive techniques. …”
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The effects of latitude on hominin social network maintenance by Pearce, E

“…This may explain the apparent ‘explosion’ of Upper Palaeolithic art in Europe: symbolic representations allowed social ties to be sustained in the absence of frequent face-to-face contact.…”

Radiocarbon and stable isotope investigations at the Central Rhineland sites of Gönnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg, Germany by Stevens, R, O'Connell, T, Hedges, R, Street, M

“…The latter site also produced evidence for a younger, Final Palaeolithic occupation of the locality by people of the Federmessergruppen. …”

Coupling the beams: how controlled extraction methods and FTIR-spectroscopy, OM and SEM reveal the grinding of starchy plants in the Pontic steppe 36,000 years ago by Longo, Laura, Birarda, G., Cagnato, C., Badetti, E., Covalenco, S., Pantyukhina, I., Skakun, N., Vaccari, L., Terekhina, V., Sorrentino, G.

“…A selection of five ground stones from Pontic Steppe sites dating back to the Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) was used as test-cases to be analysed by combining wear-traces and use-related biogenic residues (U-RBR). …”
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Aveline’s Hole: an unexpected twist in the tale by Schulting, R, Booth, T, Brace, S, Diekmann, Y, Thomas. M, Barnes, I, Meiklejohn, C, Babb, J, Budd, C, Charlton, S, van der Plicht, H, Mullan, G, Wilson, L

“…Intriguingly, craniometric analyses of legacy data including three crania lost in the bombing suggest that one, Aveline's Hole 'A', may be Upper Palaeolithic in date. As part of this re-investigation of the human remains from the site, we present new stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses that differ significantly from those originally reported for the Early Mesolithic, with the new results more in keeping with other isotopic data for this period. …”

The Potential of Micromammals for the Stratigraphy and the Timing of Human Occupations at La Roche-à-Pierrot (Saint-Césaire, France) by Loïc Lebreton, Eugène Morin, Brad Gravina, Alexandre Michel, François Bachellerie, Cédric Beauval, Damien Flas, Véronique Laroulandie, Josserand Marot, Hélène Rougier, Elise Tartar, Dominique Todisco, Isabelle Crevecoeur

“…La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire, is a major archaeological site for our understanding of the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Western Europe. Clearly documenting site formation processes, the post-depositional reworking of deposits and the sequence of human occupations is fundamental for providing a secure archaeostratigraphic context of the site. …”
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The Origins and Migrations of the Uralic People by Emil Heršak

“…Some archaeologists and linguistics, who see Uralic as very ancient, place the Proto-Uralians in the late Palaeolithic, in areas of Central and East Europe, with a northward expansion during the glacial retreat. …”
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Divje babe I-novo paleolitsko najdišče in skupinsko grobišče jamskega medveda. Poskus tafonomske analize na podlagi vzorcev iz dveh sedimentnih in arheoloških kompleksov by Ivan Turk, Janez Dirjec, Metka Culiberg

“…The 1980-1986 excavations in the newly-discovered, as yet unpublished palaeolithic cave site Divje babe I in the Idrijca valley (Cerkno, Idrija District, Slovenia), yielded a vast number of remains of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus Rosenmiiller et Heinroth 1794). …”
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