The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from
the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents …

Fossil evidence for some of the earliest Homo sapiens presence in mainland Southeast Asia
have been recovered from Tam Pà Ling (TPL) cave, northeastern Laos. Taphonomic …

Paleolithic archaeologists often rely on cave and rockshelter sites with rich occupation levels
to explore hominin behavior and settlement patterns. However, a closer look into regional …

The PALAEOSILKROAD project has been conducting field surveys in Kazakhstan to explore
the regional Palaeolithic record by targeting primarily caves and rockshelters. However, the …

The study of raw materials was comprehensively studied in European and African
Palaeolithic. However, systematic research of raw material sourcing has not been …

Modern humans dispersed throughout the entire world during the Pleistocene, completing
an important part of our evolutionary history. One of the most difficult territories to be …

Only a handful of stratified sites are known in loess, spring, and river contexts in the northern
piedmonts of the Tian Shan, and the majority are dated to the Upper Palaeolithic. These …

Reconstructing hominin raw material utilization patterns comprises one of the fundamental
objectives of prehistoric archaeology. Lithic raw materials have been widely used as …

Understanding the factors that control the distribution of Palaeolithic sites comprises a
fundamental objective of archaeological science. Geoarchaeological approaches focusing …

Abstract The Early Holocene archaeology of Central Asia (particularly the Pamir-Alay and
Western Tian Shan ranges) has recently revealed valuable insights regarding the patterns of …