This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Early Levallois core technology is usually dated in Europe to the end of Marine Isotope
Stage (MIS) 9 and particularly from the beginning of MIS 8 to MIS 6. This technology is …

This paper presents evidence of the discovery of a new Middle Pleistocene site in central
southern England, with undisturbed evidence of hominin occupation well-dated to an …

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million
years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

Two clearly differentiated techno-complexes can be recognised in the Iberian Peninsula
during the second half of the Middle Pleistocene: the Acheulean and the Middle Palaeolithic …

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

Here we present a pluridisciplinary study of Cuesta de la Bajada site (Teruel, Spain). Our
findings show that the site contains an early Middle Paleolithic assemblage similar to other …

There has always been interest in the significance of certain prehistoric technologies as
'stageposts' in the evolution of human cognition (McBrearty and Brooks 2000; Ambrose …

Levallois cores and products were manufactured by hominin populations distributed across
wide regions of Africa and Eurasia. Levallois technology remains an important focus for …