The Initial Upper Paleolithic and its place within the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition of Southwest Asia: What hides behind the curtain of taxonomies?

M Goder-Goldberger, A Malinsky-Buller - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2022 - Springer
Classification of the Paleolithic into Lower, Middle, and Upper has both chronological and
cultural meanings serving as a framework for reconstructing cultural evolution and …

Paleoenvironment and human hunting activity during MIS 2 in southern Jordan: Isotope records of prey remains and paleosols

YI Naito, M Hirose, M Belmaker, DO Henry… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of faunal remains unearthed from the rock
shelter site of Tor Hamar in southern Jordan were analyzed for reconstructing …

Innovative technological practices and their role in the emergence of Initial Upper Paleolithic technologies: a view from Boker Tachtit

M Goder-Goldberger, O Barzilai, E Boaretto - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2023 - Springer
Following renewed excavations at Boker Tachtit (2013–2015), a revised study of the lithic
assemblage techno-typological characteristics was conducted placing it within a regional …

Delayed increase in stone tool cutting-edge productivity at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in southern Jordan

S Kadowaki, JY Wakano, T Tamura… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although the lithic cutting-edge productivity has long been recognized as a quantifiable
aspect of prehistoric human technological evolution, there remains uncertainty how the …

The Early Upper paleolithic deposit of Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan): Archaeobotanical taphonomy and site formation processes

M Alonso-Eguiluz, MB Toffolo, CE White… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
With a rich, well-dated Early Upper Palaeolithic layer, the Mughr el-Hamamah cave site is
key for understanding the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Levant. The …

Ten millennia without the Levallois technique: primary knapping methods in Initial Upper Paleolithic industries at the Ushbulak site, eastern Kazakhstan

V Kharevich, A Kharevich, G Pavlenok… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The appearance of Upper Paleolithic techniques of blade production is the key
signal of Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) industries throughout Eurasia and, particularly, in …

The Initial Upper Paleolithic from Tolbor-16, Mongolia: Characteristics of the Lithic Assemblage and Their Evolutionary Implications

N Zwyns, B Tsedendorj, CH Paine, D Flas… - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2024 - Springer
According to fossil evidence, the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) refers to archaeological
assemblages associated with the early dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia. These …

Explaining the increase in “high-quality chert” in the Early Upper Paleolithic artifacts in southern Jordan: quantitative examination of chert mechanical properties and …

E Suga, K Tsukada, O Tarawneh, S Massadeh… - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2023 - Springer
In studies of flaked stone tools, the “quality” of lithic raw material has often been assessed
from a viewpoint of its suitability to lithic production, and several studies examined such raw …

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 …

OSL dating of marine isotope stage 5e marine terrace deposits on southeastern Kii Peninsula, southwestern Japan

M Ogata, T Komatsu, T Nakanishi - Earth, Planets and Space, 2024 - Springer
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of feldspar is one of the promising solutions
towards reliable chronological constraints on the ages of Pleistocene marine terraces …