The site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of human occupancy
dating to ca. 400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11), is one of the very few Middle Pleistocene …

We use stone tool refitting to assess palimpsest formation and stratigraphic integrity in the
basal units of the Gruta da Oliveira archeo-stratigraphic sequence, layers 15–27, which TL …

Based on previous radiocarbon and U-series (Diffusion/Adsorption) dating of bone samples,
the Middle Palaeolithic has been thought to persist at Gruta da Oliveira until∼ 37 thousand …

The European Mousterian has traditionally been portrayed as a long period of technological
stasis as opposed to the technotypological dynamism of Upper Paleolithic cultures. The …

Across the prehistoric period in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), very few architectural
remains and settlements have been identified and there is an absence of evidence for …

Archaeologists studying the human occupation of Late Pleistocene Iberia have identified the
Late Upper Palaeolithic, including the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, as a time of resource …

The Almonda karstic system is an extensive network of cavities associated with the spring of
the Almonda River. Among those of archaeological interest, the lowermost, 5–15 m above …

Geoarchaeological analysis of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic record preserved in cave,
rock-shelter and open-air sites in the northern sector of the Meso-Cenozoic of the Western …

Throughout the Pleistocene climatic shifts repeatedly impacted the Mediterranean region. In
response to these perturbations, the Mediterranean bioclimatic zones evolved as some of …

Evidence of deformation at the microscopic level in archaeological contexts is rather rare. To
address the problem of identification of deformation structures, a series of experimental …