[图书][B] The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

SL Kuhn - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Recycling for a purpose in the late Lower Paleolithic Levant: Use-wear and residue analyses of small sharp flint items indicate a planned and integrated subsistence …

F Venditti, S Nunziante-Cesaro, Y Parush… - Journal of human …, 2019 - Elsevier
The purposeful production of small flakes is integral to the lithic variability of many Middle
Pleistocene sites. Inhabitants of the Acheulo-Yabrudian site of Qesem Cave, Israel …

[HTML][HTML] Shaped stone balls were used for bone marrow extraction at Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel

E Assaf, I Caricola, A Gopher, J Rosell, R Blasco… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The presence of shaped stone balls at early Paleolithic sites has attracted scholarly attention
since the pioneering work of the Leakeys in Olduvai, Tanzania. Despite the persistent …

Late lower paleolithic lithic procurement and exploitation strategies: A view from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave (Israel)

A Agam - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents patterns of flint acquisition and exploitation, observed through a large-
scale study of the lithic assemblages from the Middle Pleistocene Acheulo-Yabrudian …

Knowledge transmission and apprentice flint-knappers in the Acheulo-Yabrudian: A case study from Qesem Cave, Israel

E Assaf, R Barkai, A Gopher - Quaternary international, 2016 - Elsevier
We present the techno-typological characteristics of a lithic assemblage earlier that 300 ka
originating from the southern area of Qesem Cave, a Middle Pleistocene site in central …

Interpreting the Quina and demi-Quina scrapers from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave, Israel: Results of raw materials and functional analyses

A Agam, A Zupancich - Journal of Human Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Quina scrapers are well-known components of the European Middle Paleolithic Mousterian.
A similar production process was detected within the lithic assemblages of the Levantine …

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… - …, 2024 - 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 …

Estimating temperatures of heated Lower Palaeolithic flint artefacts

A Agam, I Azuri, I Pinkas, A Gopher… - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
Production of stone artefacts using pyro-technology is known from the Middle and Upper
Palaeolithic of Europe and the Levant, and the Middle Stone Age in Africa. However …

The evolution of raw material procurement strategies: A view from the deep sequence of Tabun Cave, Israel

R Shimelmitz, SL Kuhn, M Weinstein-Evron - Journal of human evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in the ways Paleolithic foragers exploited raw material sources are linked
to mobility, the demands of production, and investment in quarrying. Here, we analyze the …

Flint type analysis of bifaces from Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave (Israel) suggests an older Acheulian origin

A Agam, L Wilson, A Gopher, R Barkai - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2020 - Springer
This paper presents the results of a flint type analysis performed for the small assemblage of
bifaces found at the Acheulo-Yabrudian site Qesem Cave (QC), Israel (420–200 kya), which …