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

“…This investigation belongs to a Polish–Hungarian research collaboration in the frame of which four Palaeolithic sites were excavated in the Eger region since 2002. …”
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Efficacy of the palaeolithic diet in healthy female subjects on cardiovascular, metabolic and anthropometric outcomes by A. Genoni, A. Devine, J. Lo, P. Lyons-Wall

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The first directly dated evidence for Palaeolithic occupation on the Indian coast at Sandhav, Kachchh by Blinkhorn, J, Ajithprasad, P, Mukherjee, A, Kumar, P, Durcan, J, Roberts, P

“…South Asia has a rich Palaeolithic heritage, and chronological resolution for this record has substantially improved over the past decade as a result of focused, interdisciplinary research at a number of key sites. …”

Constraining the chronology and ecology of Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic occupations at the margins of the monsoon by Blinkhorn, J, Achyuthan, H, Durcan, J, Roberts, P, Ilgner, J

“…Here, we investigate Palaeolithic occupations at the western margin of the South Asian monsoon at Singi Talav, undertaking new chronometric, sedimentological and palaeoecological studies of Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic occupation horizons. …”

The mid Upper Palaeolithic of European Russia: chronology, culture history and context: a study of five Gravettian backed lithic assemblages by Reynolds, N

Subjects: “…Upper Palaeolithic archaeology…”

Detecting human mobility in the Pyrenees through the analysis of chert tools during the Upper Palaeolithic by Marta Sánchez de la Torre

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Loess formation and chronology at the Palaeolithic key site Rheindahlen, Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany by M. Kehl, M. Kehl, K. Seeger, S. Pötter, S. Pötter, P. Schulte, N. Klasen, M. Zickel, A. Pastoors, E. Claßen

“…<p>The loess–palaeosol sequence and intercalated Palaeolithic find layers at the former brickyard of Rheindahlen are matters of ongoing scientific dispute. …”
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Tuff, Flint, and Hazelnuts: Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Occupation at Netherhall Road, Maryport, Cumbria by Ann Clarke, Magnus Kirby

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News on old sites: the Middle Palaeolithic occupation at Cheia – La Izvor (Southeastern Romania) by Adrian Doboș, Valentin Dumitrașcu

Subjects: “…middle palaeolithic…”

A quantitative analysis of Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy and evolution in Europe. by Felix Riede, David N Matzig, Miguel Biard, Philippe Crombé, Javier Fernández-Lopéz de Pablo, Federica Fontana, Daniel Groß, Thomas Hess, Mathieu Langlais, Ludovic Mevel, William Mills, Martin Moník, Nicolas Naudinot, Caroline Posch, Tomas Rimkus, Damian Stefański, Hans Vandendriessche, Shumon T Hussain

“…For the study of the Palaeolithic, and particularly the European Final Palaeolithic and earliest Mesolithic, proposed changes in material culture are often interpreted as reflecting historical processes, migration, or cultural adaptation to climate change and resource availability. …”
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Early Upper Palaeolithic archaeology at Beedings, West Sussex: new contexts for Pleistocene archaeology by Matthew Pope

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A quantitative analysis of Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy and evolution in Europe by Felix Riede, David N. Matzig, Miguel Biard, Philippe Crombé, Javier Fernández-Lopéz de Pablo, Federica Fontana, Daniel Groß, Thomas Hess, Mathieu Langlais, Ludovic Mevel, William Mills, Martin Moník, Nicolas Naudinot, Caroline Posch, Tomas Rimkus, Damian Stefański, Hans Vandendriessche, Shumon T. Hussain

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Identifying Palaeolithic birch tar production techniques: challenges from an experimental biomolecular approach by Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Liliana I. Baron, Geeske H. J. Langejans

“…Here we test whether these biomarkers can also distinguish Palaeolithic (aceramic) tar production methods. We produced tar using five different methods and analysed their biomolecular composition with GC–MS. …”
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Early polished stone tools in South China evidence of the transition from Palaeolithic to Neolithic by Chaohong Zhao, Xiaohong Wu, Tao Wang, Xuemei Yuan

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Early Middle Palaeolithic occupations at Ventalaperra cave (Cantabrian Region, Northern Iberian Peninsula) by Joseba Rios-Garaizar

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Taphonomic and technological analyses of Lower Palaeolithic bone tools from Clacton-on-Sea, UK by Simon A. Parfitt, Mark D. Lewis, Silvia M. Bello

“…Microscopic examination of percussion damage suggests the bones were used as knapping hammers to shape or resharpen flake tools. Early Palaeolithic bone tools are exceedingly rare, and the Clacton examples are the earliest known organic knapping hammers associated with a core-and-flake (Mode 1) lithic technology. …”
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The late upper palaeolithic occupation of the Moroccan Northwest Maghreb during the last glacial maximum by Barton, R, Bouzouggar, A, Collcutt, SN, Gale, R, Higham, T, Humphrey, LT, Parfitt, S, Rhodes, E, Stringer, C, Malek, F

“…New work at Kehf el Hammar Cave provides the first well-dated palaeoenvironmental sequence for the Late Upper Palaeolithic in this region of the northwest Maghreb. …”

Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia by Groucutt, H, Scerri, E, Amor, K, Shipton, C, Jennings, R, Parton, A, Clark-Balzan, L, Alsharekh, A, Petraglia, M

“…Several hundred Middle Palaeolithic (MP) archaeological sites have now been identified in the Arabian Peninsula. …”

A technological study of selected osseous artifacts from the Upper Palaeolithic of Britain and Belgium by McComb, P, Patricia McComb

“…<p>This thesis records the study of over one thousand selected, bone, antler and ivory artifacts from the Upper Palaeolithic in Britain and Belgium, with particular reference to manufacture. …”

Prehistoric aesthetics: an ontology of Stone Age art from the Lower Palaeolithic until the Neolithic by Govaerts, B

“…This theoretical examination provides the basis for the second part of the thesis, in which I theorize three different types of aesthetic experience for three different prehistoric periods: the Early Palaeolithic, the Upper Palaeolithic and Neolithic. Whereas it is necessary to understand the universal principle of art and the aesthetic, it is equally necessary to understand that this principle can only take up a particular form and therefore can be modified in different ways. …”