Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use by Lila Geis, Francesco d’Errico, Fiona M. Jordan, Michel Brenet, Alain Queffelec

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Frontiers of the Lower Palaeolithic expansion in Europe: Tunel Wielki Cave (Poland) by Małgorzata Kot, Claudio Berto, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo, Natalia Gryczewska, Marcin Szymanek, Adrian Marciszak, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Katarzyna Zarzecka-Szubińska, Grzegorz Lipecki, Krzysztof Wertz, Teresa Madeyska

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Scaling Palaeolithic tar production processes exponentially increases behavioural complexity by Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Sebastian Fajardo, Geeske H. J. Langejans

“…Yet, it is currently unknown how scaling Palaeolithic technological processes influences their complexity. …”
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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use. by Lila Geis, Francesco d'Errico, Fiona M Jordan, Michel Brenet, Alain Queffelec

“…Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. …”
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The New evidence for the Palaeolithic on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros), North Eastern Aegean by Burcin Erdogu, Nejat Eyüp Yücel, Kerem Demir

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Microtomographic Analysis of a Palaeolithic Wooden Point from the Ljubljanica River by Enej Guček Puhar, Lidija Korat, Miran Erič, Aleš Jaklič, Franc Solina

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Site distribution at the edge of the palaeolithic world: a nutritional niche approach. by Antony G Brown, Laura S Basell, Sian Robinson, Graham C Burdge

“…This paper presents data from the English Channel area of Britain and Northern France on the spatial distribution of Lower to early Middle Palaeolithic pre-MIS5 interglacial sites which are used to test the contention that the pattern of the richest sites is a real archaeological distribution and not of taphonomic origin. …”
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The Fensmark settlement and the almost invisible Late Palaeolithic in Danish field archaeology by Anders Fischer

“… Traces of Late Palaeolithic activity in the North European landscape are practically invisible to modern field archaeology. …”
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Geoarchaeological research into Palaeolithic cave sites as a source of palaeoenvironmental data by Janez Turk

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Environment and man in the Late Palaeolithic — Middle Ages in the southern Primorye: review by Lyashchevskaya M.S., Bazarova V.B., Dorofeeva N.A.

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Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans by Borić, D, Cristiani, E, Hopkins, R, Schwenninger, J, Gerometta, K, French, CAI, Mutri, G, Ćalić, J, Dimitrijević, V, Marín-Arroyo, AB, Jones, JR, Stevens, R, Masciana, A, Uno, K, Richter, KK, Antonović, D, Wehr, K, Lane, C, White, D

“…The article presents evidence about the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition interval in the karst area of the Danube Gorges in the Lower Danube Basin. …”

Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave by Douka, K, Slon, V, Jacobs, Z, Bronk Ramsey, C, Shunkov, M, Derevianko, A, Mafessoni, F, Kozlikin, M, Bo, L, Grun, R, Comeskey, D, Deviese, T, Brown, S, Viola, B, Kinsley, L, Buckley, M, Meyer, M, Roberts, R, Pääbo, S, Kelso, J, Higham, T

“…Here we present 50 radiocarbon determinations from the late Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers of the site. We also report three direct dates for hominin fragments and obtain a mitochondrial DNA sequence for one of them. …”

From the cave to the virtual museum: accessibility and democratisation of Franco-Cantabrian Palaeolithic art by Miguel García-Bustos, Olivia Rivero, Paula García Bustos, Ana María Mateo-Pellitero

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Middle Palaeolithic flint procurement in Central Mediterranean Iberia: Implications for human mobility by Aleix Eixea, Clodoaldo Roldán, Valentín Villaverde, João Zilhão

“…Different flint types from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia) are characterized,  both macro- and microscopically, and compared with types found at other localities in the region. …”
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Non-masticatory striations on human teeth from the British Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic by Lucile Crété, Simon A. Parfitt, Charles Day, Silvia M. Bello

“…The sample also includes Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic teeth with non-masticatory striations likely associated with funerary practices or cannibalistic treatment of cadavers. …”
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Pieces of people in the Pavlovian: Burials, body parts and bones in the earlier Upper Palaeolithic by Erik Trinkaus, Sandra Sázelová, Jiří Svoboda

“…The rich earlier Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Pavlovian) sites of Dolní Vĕstonice I and II and Pavlov I (∼32,000–∼30,000 cal BP) in southern Moravia (Czech Republic) have yielded a series of human burials, isolated pairs of extremities and isolated bones and teeth. …”

How were Half-Moons on Shells Made in the Upper Palaeolithic? An Experimental Approach by Annamaria Daniele

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Excavation at a new Upper Palaeolithic site of the Eger region (Northern Hungary)

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The Becoming of a Prehistoric Landscape: Palaeolithic Occupations and Geomorphological Processes at Lojanik (Serbia) by Camille Lesage, Alvise Barbieri, Jovan Galfi, Dragan Jovanović, Vera Bogosavljević Petrović

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Revisiting the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal). by João Zilhão, Diego E Angelucci, Lee J Arnold, Francesco d'Errico, Laure Dayet, Martina Demuro, Marianne Deschamps, Helen Fewlass, Luís Gomes, Beth Linscott, Henrique Matias, Alistair W G Pike, Peter Steier, Sahra Talamo, Eva M Wild

“…Dating anomalies exist in association with the succession's two major discontinuities: between layer Eb and Upper Solutrean layer Fa, and between Early Upper Palaeolithic layer K and Middle Palaeolithic layer L. …”
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