Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

J Galway‐Witham, J Cole… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

To meat or not to meat? New perspectives on N eanderthal ecology

L Fiorenza, S Benazzi, AG Henry… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional
needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage …

Pleistocene Rhine–Thames landscapes: geological background for hominin occupation of the southern North Sea region

MP Hijma, KM Cohen, W Roebroeks… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper links research questions in Quaternary geology with those in Palaeolithic
archaeology. A detailed geological reconstruction of The Netherlands' south‐west offshore …

Towards the Middle Palaeolithic in western Europe: the case of Orgnac 3 (southeastern France)

MH Moncel, AM Moigne, J Combier - Journal of Human Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
The sequence of Orgnac 3 in southern Europe is dated to MIS 9 and the beginning of MIS 8.
The site contains records of Upper Acheulian occupations with evidence of Middle …

The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in north-western Europe and its southern fringes

D Hérisson, M Brenet, D Cliquet, MH Moncel… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The nature of the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition has been one of the most debated
questions in early Prehistory since the mid-20th century. The root of these debates lies …

San Bernardino Cave (Italy) and the appearance of Levallois technology in Europe: results of a radiometric and technological reassessment

A Picin, M Peresani, C Falguères, G Gruppioni… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The introduction of Levallois technology in Europe marked the transition from the Lower to
the early Middle Paleolithic. This new method of flake production was accompanied by …

The dawn of the Middle Paleolithic in Atapuerca: the lithic assemblage of TD10. 1 from Gran Dolina

A de Lombera-Hermida, XP Rodríguez-Álvarez… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Atapuerca localities present evidence of a long series of hominin occupations from the
Early Pleistocene onward and are a key site for understanding the continuity and …

Insights into the late stages of the Acheulean technocomplex of Western Iberia from the Arbo site (Galicia, Spain)

E Méndez-Quintas, M Demuro, LJ Arnold… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The arrival and disappearance of the Acheulean technocomplex in Europe, and specifically
in the Iberian Peninsula, is a longstanding topic of discussion with relevance for unravelling …

A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

L Tizzard, AR Bicket, J Benjamin… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The potential for Middle Palaeolithic sites to survive beneath the sea in northern
latitudes has been established by intensive investigation within Area 240, a marine …

Acheulean variability in Western Europe: The case of Menez-Dregan I (Plouhinec, Finistère, France)

AL Ravon, P García-Medrano, MH Moncel… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
The establishment of the Acheulean in Europe occurred after MIS 17, but it was after the
harsh glaciation of MIS 12 and during the long interglacial of MIS 11 that human occupation …