A review of ethnographic use of wooden spears and implications for Pleistocene hominin hunting

A Milks - Open Quaternary, 2020 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Wooden spears are amongst the earliest weapons known from the archaeological record,
with broken and complete examples known from Middle and Late Pleistocene Eurasian …

Integrated geochronology of Acheulian sites from the southern Latium (central Italy): Insights on human-environment interaction and the technological innovations …

A Pereira, S Nomade, MH Moncel, P Voinchet… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We have explored the multimethod approach combining 40 Ar/39 Ar on single crystal, ESR
on bleached quartz, and ESR/U-series on teeth to improve the age of four neighbours …

The earliest securely dated hominin fossil in Italy and evidence of Acheulian occupation during glacial MIS 16 at Notarchirico (Venosa, Basilicata, Italy)

A Pereira, S Nomade, P Voinchet… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Early Middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (Basilicata, Italy) is a 7‐m‐
thick fluvially emplaced sedimentary sequence rich in volcanic materials coming from the …

The early Acheulian of north-western Europe

MH Moncel, N Ashton, A Lamotte, A Tuffreau… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
The introduction of biface technology in the Lower Palaeolithic arguably marked a
fundamental change in how early hominins dealt with their world. It is suggested to reflect …

The Lower/early middle Pleistocene small débitage productions in western Europe: new data from Isernia La Pineta t. 3c (Upper Volturno Basin, Italy)

R Gallotti, C Peretto - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Isernia La Pineta archaeological site in Central Italy, dated to about 0.6 Ma, is one
of the earliest archaeological sites of the Italian peninsula and one of the key sites for the …

In situ high spatial resolution 87Sr/86Sr ratio determination of two Middle Pleistocene (ca 580 ka) Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis teeth by LA–MC–ICP–MS

F Lugli, A Cipriani, C Peretto, M Mazzucchelli… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bone and tooth tissues are important biological archives to study eating habits and
provenance of ancient humans and animals. By taking advantage of the high spatial …

Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology

S Stoddart, J Woodbridge, A Palmisano… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper compares changes in vegetation structure and composition (using synthetic fossil
pollen data) with proxy data for population levels (including settlements and radiocarbon …

[HTML][HTML] The assemblages with bifacial tools in Eurasia (first part). What is going on in the West? Data on western and southern Europe and the Levant

MH Moncel, M Arzarello, É Boëda, S Bonilauri… - Comptes Rendus …, 2018 - Elsevier
Assemblages with bifacial tools cover large areas of the Eurasian continent from the Middle
Pleistocene to the Upper Pleistocene. These encompass varied technological strategies …

Suspected limited mobility of a Middle Pleistocene woman from Southern Italy: strontium isotopes of a human deciduous tooth

F Lugli, A Cipriani, J Arnaud, M Arzarello, C Peretto… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We present the Sr isotopic composition of enamel of the most ancient deciduous tooth ever
discovered in Italy to assess human mobility in Middle Pleistocene. Reconstructing ancient …

From 800 to 500 ka in Western Europe. The oldest evidence of Acheuleans in their technological, chronological, and geographical framework

MH Moncel, N Ashton - The emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa …, 2018 - Springer
This paper focuses on the early evidence of assemblages with bifacial tools, in particular
their technology within the context of chronology and geography, focusing on the sites of La …