Cova Eirós is emerging as a reference site in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula for the
study of the development of the last Neanderthal populations and the first populations of …

Abstract The Northwest of Iberia has yielded one of the most complete European Middle
Paleolithic records. Despite this wealth of information, very little is known about population …

Although essential for reconstructing hominin behaviour during the Early Palaeolithic, only a
handful of Acheulean sites have been dated in the Eastern Sahara region. This is due to the …

Stone weapon points constitute a major innovation appearing at the end of the Middle
Pleistocene in Europe, Africa and the Near East; that is, among both sapiens and …

Quartzite has been poorly studied from a functional point of view since the foundation of use-
wear analysis, as the method was largely built upon the observation of wear on fine-grained …

The present work describes a preliminary study of a primarily quartz-based Mousterian lithic
assemblage deposited about 75,000 years ago by Neanderthals in Navalmaíllo rockshelter …

The study of wear marks on Palaeolithic quartz tools allows an understanding of how they
were used. The present work reports a functional study of a sample of Mousterian quartz …

In this chapter we explain the specificities posed by the use-wear analysis of homogeneous
and heterogeneous rocks other than flint. We describe the experimentation carried out with …

The use of resharpening flakes from Early Middle Paleolithic tools and their role as recycled
implements has long been discussed, as part of a broader discussion on the role of small …

ABSTRACT Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic artefacts coming from dated layers preserved in
their original stratigraphic position are still rare in Northeast Africa in general and in Sudan …