Neanderthal lithic procurement and mobility patterns through a multi-level study in the Abric Romaní site (Capellades, Spain)

BG de Soler, M Soto, J Vallverdú, M Vaquero… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study represents the first integrated approach to the lithic raw materials exploited by the
Neanderthals that occupied the Abric Romaní site (NE Iberia). Focusing on chert as the most …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions in bones but not stone: Anomalous cultural transmission gaps in Romania's Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition

W Chu, A Doboș, M Soressi - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Pleistocene archeological record shows emerging patterns of population
turnover frequently associated with technological change between c. 50–40 thousand years …

Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago)

A Picin, O Wedage, J Blinkhorn, N Amano… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Recent archaeological investigations in Sri Lanka have reported evidence for the
exploitation and settlement of tropical rainforests by Homo sapiens since c. 48,000 BP …

Understanding Neanderthal technological adaptation at Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter (Spain) by measuring lithic raw materials performance variability

A Abrunhosa, T Pereira, B Márquez… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter is an Upper Pleistocene archaeological site in the Lozoya
River Valley (Madrid, Spain) with a quartz-based Mousterian lithic assemblage. To …

Far from flint: Inferring land-use and social networks from Middle and Upper Palaeolithic lithic assemblages (Cardina-Salto do Boi, Côa Valley, Portugal)

T Aubry, AF Barbosa, C Gameiro, L Luis… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hunter-gatherer societies mobility has been interpreted as a dialectical interplay of social
and environmental factors. Demography and social network restriction have been pointed …

Refits, cobbles, and fire: Approaching the temporal nature of an expedient Gravettian lithic assemblage from Lagar Velho (Leiria, Portugal)

ES Alonso-Fernández, M Vaquero, J Daura, AM Costa… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Upper Paleolithic lithic assemblages have traditionally been considered a paramount
example of the high level of complexity characterizing the technological behavior of …

Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan

E Suga, N Ichinose, K Tsukada, S Kadowaki… - … Research in Asia, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Although the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant is known for changes
in multiple aspects of archaeological records such as lithic technology, subsistence …

Assessing the durability of Oldowan stone tools in South Africa: Implications for quartz selectivity and use

MV Caruana, SP Mtshali - Lithic Technology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Raw material selection and transport behaviors are important constraints on Oldowan lithic
production strategies. While patterns in toolstone preference at Oldowan sites suggest that …

[HTML][HTML] How to deal with an elephant in the room? Understanding “non-flint” raw materials: characterisation and technological organisation

AP de Dios, XA Moreira, M Arzarello… - ArkeoGazte: Revista …, 2022 - investigacion.usc.es
Suharria ez den beste lehengai batzuen ikerketen areagotzeak, historiaurreko baliabide
litkoen ekonomiari buruzko gure ezagutza zabaldu du. Narratba berriak ari dira sortzen …

The detachment of Levallois flakes using bipolar percussion at Howiesons Poort Shelter, South Africa

A Tabrett - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the southern African archaeological sequence, the Levallois method of core reduction is
considered to be a distinctive technological feature of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) …