Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz

A Murray, LJ Arnold, JP Buylaert, G Guérin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

Neanderthals in a highly diverse, mediterranean-Eurosiberian forest ecotone: the pleistocene pollen record of Teixoneres Cave, northeastern Spain

J Ochando, JS Carrion, R Blasco, F Rivals… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
A palynological study of the archaeological layers from the Neanderthal site of Teixoneres
Cave, located in Northeastern Spain, is presented. Vegetation dynamics for the MIS 7-MIS 2 …

Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration

SA Hocknull, R Lewis, LJ Arnold, T Pietsch… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Explanations for the Upper Pleistocene extinction of megafauna from Sahul
(Australia and New Guinea) remain unresolved. Extinction hypotheses have advanced …

Semiotics and the origin of language in the Lower Palaeolithic

L Barham, D Everett - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2021 - Springer
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

Past extinctions of Homo species coincided with increased vulnerability to climatic change

P Raia, A Mondanaro, M Melchionna, M Di Febbraro… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
At least six different Homo species populated the World during the latest Pliocene to the
Pleistocene. The extinction of all but one of them is currently shrouded in mystery, and no …

The earliest European Acheulean: new insights into the large shaped tools from the late Early Pleistocene site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain)

A Ollé, D Lombao, L Asryan… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Since the oldest known Acheulean lithic techno-typological features in Europe were
reported at the site of Barranc de la Boella (Tarragona, Spain), continuous fieldwork has …

Nobody's land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

N Sala, M Alcaraz-Castaño, M Arriolabengoa… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia
during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically …

The unity of Acheulean culture

C Shipton - Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can we …, 2020 - Springer
This chapter examines the issue of whether the Acheulean is a genuine homologous
cultural entity, descended via a chain of social reproduction from a common 'ancestor', or …

A marine isotope stage 11 coastal Acheulian workshop with associated wood at Amanzi Springs Area 1, South Africa

AIR Herries, LJ Arnold, G Boschian, AF Blackwood… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Amanzi Springs is a series of inactive thermal springs located near Kariega in the Eastern
Cape of South Africa. Excavations in the 1960s exposed rare, stratified Acheulian-bearing …

[图书][B] Interrogating Human Origins

M Porr, J Matthews - 2019 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.| Series: Archaeological
orientations; 4| Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN …