Pyrotechnology, the ability for hominins to use fire as a tool, is considered to be one of the
most important behavioural adaptations in human evolution. While several studies have …

Palaeolithic stone plaquettes are a type of mobiliary art featuring engravings and recovered
primarily from Magdalenian sites, where they can number from single finds to several …

Charcoal and micro-layers of soot trapped in speleothems from the inner galleries of Nerja
Cave were analysed through an interdisciplinary study. The absolute dating of the …

Virtual Reality (VR) has vast potential for developing systematic, interdisciplinary studies to
understand ephemeral behaviours in the archaeological record, such as the emergence and …

We analyze the influence of hearth location and smoke dispersal on potential activity areas
at Lower Paleolithic Lazaret Cave, France, focusing on archaeostratigraphic unit UA25 …

Approaches to Palaeolithic art have increasingly shifted beyond the traditional focus on
engraved or depicted forms in isolation, to appreciating the sensorial experience of art …

Atxurra cave has a decorated assemblage composed of more than a hundred engraved
animal depictions. All of them are located in deep parts of the cave and most of them are …

The influence of pareidolia has often been anecdotally observed in examples of Upper
Palaeolithic cave art, where topographic features of cave walls were incorporated into …

The endokarst landscape is the result of long erosion and sedimentation processes that
have modelled an environment in which capricious forms abound. Despite being a hostile …

Santimamiñe Cave, in Biscay (North Spain) is a well-known archaeological site in the region
because of its prompt discovery and excavation in the early 20th century and its ensemble of …