Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman

MI Eren, MR Bebber, D Singer, C Pearson… - …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Lithic raw material properties are often invoked to explain the presence, absence, form, or
ontogeny of Paleolithic stone tools. Here, we explore whether the frequency of the Middle …

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 …

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 …

Petrographic and geochemical characterization of chert artifacts from Middle, Upper, and Epi‐Paleolithic assemblages in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan

N Ichinose, E Suga, S Kadowaki, K Tsukada… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study conducted petrographic and geochemical analyses of chert artifacts from the Late
Middle Paleolithic, the Initial Upper Paleolithic, the Early Upper Paleolithic, and the Epi …

[PDF][PDF] Deeper Insights Into the Lithic Raw Materials on the Iranian Plateau: West-Central Zagros Mountains

N Hariri, M Ranjbaran, E Ghasidian… - Iranian Journal of …, 2024 - ijas.usb.ac.ir
Recent prehistoric research, which involved surveys and excavations in the Kermanshah
Region, has focusedon understanding the nature and timing of the Middle Palaeolithic to …

[PDF][PDF] Survey for chert outcrops in the Western Hisma Basin, southern Jordan and its implications for paleolithic raw material procurement

S Kadowaki, K Tsukada, M Hirose, E Suga… - Orient, 2022 - researchgate.net
In the southern Levant, a study region of this paper, chert (flint) is the main raw material of
chipped stone artifacts, and the availability and variability of chert have been increasingly …

Preference for Porphyry: Petrographic Insights into Lithic Raw Material Procurement from Palaeolithic Kazakhstan

A Namen, P Schmidt, A Varis… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Raw material choices in the palaeolithic of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor of Kazakhstan

A Namen - 2022 - tobias-lib.ub.uni-tuebingen.de
Reconstructing hominin raw material utilization patterns comprises one of the fundamental
objectives of prehistoric archaeology. Lithic raw materials have been widely used as …