Beginning with excavations during the 1970s, Vindija Cave (Croatia) has yielded significant
Middle and Upper Paleolithic fossil and archaeological finds. We report on seven recently …

The existence of retouchers made from hard animal tissues in the Middle Palaeolithic was
first identified in the early 20th century, but only in recent years have researchers been …

Abstract The Quina Mousterian is one of the well-defined Middle Paleolithic techno-
complexes. Despite the pivotal research carried out in south-western France, the presence …

Processing of osseous materials was an important component of the repertoire of
technological innovations throughout the Palaeolithic. The study of hard animal materials …

Osseous artefacts from the Mesolithic levels of Pradestel rockshelter,(north-eastern Italy): A
morphological and technofunctional analysis-The results of a morphological and techno …

The Late Mesolithic in Southern Europe is dated to the 7th and the first part of the 6th
millennia bce and is marked by profound changes which are mostly evident in the technical …

Abstract The Late Mesolithic (Castelnovian) burial of Mondeval de Sora was discovered in
1987 within an archaeological sequence located under a large erratic boulder in the Belluno …

Detailed taphonomic and skeletal analyses document the diverse and often unusual burial
practices employed by European Neolithic populations. In the Upper Chamber at Scaloria …

This paper describes a retouched bone shaft found in a Late Mousterian layer at Fumane
Cave, northern Italy. The interpretation of the anthropic nature of the retouch is based on the …

Bone retouchers are a technological appliance used to perfect lithic tools efficiently. They
are most frequently found in Middle Palaeolithic contexts. In this paper, we present a group …