For decades, the relationship of pre-modern hominins to anatomically modern humans
(AMH) and the transition from mode 3 to mode 4 industries remain topics of ongoing …

The resilience of Neanderthals towards changing climatic and environmental conditions,
and especially towards severely cold climates in northern regions of central Europe, is still …

Many researchers have hypothesized an analogous, and possibly evolutionary, relationship
between Paleolithic stone tool manufacture and language. This study uses a unique design …

This paper examines shape and size variability in Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA)
handaxes and compares the observed patterns to those in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian …

Background Recent findings suggest that the North African Middle Stone Age
technocomplex known as the Aterian is both much older than previously assumed, and …

The angle and shape of lithic tool edges have long been used as a method of inferring
prehistoric tool function. However, accurately measuring and characterizing edge angles of …

In line with engineering research focusing on metal tools, techniques to record the attribute
of 'edge sharpness' on stone tools can include both mechanical and micro-geometric …

Population dynamics between and within Pleistocene groups are vital to understanding
wider behavioural processes like social transmission and cultural variation. The late Middle …

Lithic artifacts are increasingly being used to address questions in evolutionary, ie,
historical, terms. The explicit assumption in such analyses is that lithic attributes reflect …

Landmark-based geometric morphometrics (LGM) is most often used in archaeology to
characterize and differentiate groups of artifacts, but it can be used for much more. We …