Paleolithic Prehistory Periods and Cultures Archaeology
Paleolithic Prehistory Periods and Cultures Archaeology
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic is the archaeological period before c.10,000 years ago, characterized by the earliest known stone tool manufacture.
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- Shannon McPherron (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania) report on research at several sites in Europe and Abydos in Egypt.
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- A description of the eating habits of our ancestors. Features commentary derived from a email discussion list on nutrition.
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- A image gallery of megafauna on display at the Russian Paleontological Institute.
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- Mark Roberts discusses why was Europe colonised by hominids half a million years ago. Published in the Journal of British Archaeology in 1996.
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- A guide to the climatic changes that occurred during the Paleolithic.
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- An illustrated overview of Neanderthal living.
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- Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). The origin of blade technology used to be located at the Upper Paleolithic and identified with anatomically modern humans. (PDF)
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- Features an overview chronology and provides brief descriptions of sites and fossil finds.
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- A description of climatic conditions during the Paleolithic.
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- Sari Miller-Antonio, Lynne A. Schepartz and Deborah Bakken describe evidence suggesting that non-lithic materials were used in the tool kits of Middle Pleistocene Chinese assemblages.
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- 400,000bp Lower Palaeolithic hunting station of Homo erectus has produced not only thousands of well-preserved mammal remains and eight wooden spears.
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- An article that argues that Paleolithic cave art is a depiction of human and animal relationships in prehistory.
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- A report on a site located in Ossetia, Russia presented by Nazim Hidjrati, Larry Kimball, and Todd Koetje at the 1996 Paleoanthropology meetings.
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- Larry Barham reports in British Archaeology that evidence of modern human behaviour 200,000 years old may have been found in Africa.
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- A brief introduction to site of Wallertheim is located in the Rheinhessen region of Germany, approximately 25km southwest of the city of Mainz, and is situated on the former floodplain of the Wiesbach river
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- Summary of the style-versus-function debate regarding Paleolithic stone tools. Includes references.
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- A dietary analysis based on carbon atoms in the tooth enamel of fossil ancestors.
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