Early Levallois core technology between marine isotope stage 12 and 9 in Western Europe

MH Moncel, N Ashton, M Arzarello, F Fontana… - Journal of human …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China

Y Hu, B Marwick, JF Zhang, X Rui, YM Hou, JP Yue… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Levallois approaches are one of the best known variants of prepared-core technologies, and
are an important hallmark of stone technologies developed around 300,000 years ago in …

Modelling the end of the Acheulean at global and continental levels suggests widespread persistence into the Middle Palaeolithic

AJM Key, I Jarić, DL Roberts - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2021 - nature.com
The Acheulean is the longest cultural tradition ever practised by humans, lasting for over 1.5
million years. Yet, its end has never been accurately dated; only broad 300–150 thousand …

Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

Y Zaidner, L Centi, M Prévost, N Mercier, C Falguères… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at
the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior …

New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland)

A Picin, M Hajdinjak, W Nowaczewska, S Benazzi… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Micoquian is the broadest and longest enduring cultural facies of the Late Middle
Palaeolithic that spread across the periglacial and boreal environments of Europe between …

The emergence of the Levallois technology in the Levant: A view from the Early Middle Paleolithic site of Misliya Cave, Israel

Y Zaidner, M Weinstein-Evron - Journal of human evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Middle Paleolithic (EMP) lithic assemblage of Misliya Cave, dated to 240–
150 ka, is associated with one of the earliest occurrences of Homo sapiens outside Africa …

Late Acheulian Jaljulia–Early human occupations in the paleo-landscape of the central coastal plain of Israel

M Shemer, N Greenbaum, N Taha… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Lower Paleolithic Late Acheulian in the Levant marks a fascinating chapter in human
cultural and biological evolution. Nevertheless, many aspects of the Late Acheulian are still …

The dawn of the Middle Paleolithic in Atapuerca: the lithic assemblage of TD10. 1 from Gran Dolina

A de Lombera-Hermida, XP Rodríguez-Álvarez… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Atapuerca localities present evidence of a long series of hominin occupations from the
Early Pleistocene onward and are a key site for understanding the continuity and …

Neanderthal mobile toolkit in short-term occupations at Teixoneres Cave (Moia, Spain)

A Picin, MG Chacón, BG de Soler, R Blasco… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hunter–gatherers have a nomadic lifestyle and move frequently on the landscape based on
the seasonal distribution of resources. During these displacements, carrying capacities are …

Acheulian shortcuts: Cumulative culture and the use of handaxes as cores for the production of predetermined blanks

T Rosenberg-Yefet, M Shemer, R Barkai - Journal of Archaeological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Handaxes, the hallmark of the Acheulian cultural complex, were occasionally recycled at the
end of the Lower Paleolithic period as cores for the production of predetermined blanks. It …