Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Population dynamics set the framework for human genetic and cultural evolution. For
foragers, demographic and environmental changes correlate strongly, although the causal …

The timing and course of the recolonisation of Central Europe after the Last Glacial
Maximum are intensively debated. Particularly puzzling is the distribution of sites between …

Abstract Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000
years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of …

A unique property of the Paleolithic record is the possibility to observe human societies in
large areas and over long periods of time. At these large spatial and temporal scales, a …

Archaeological systematics, together with spatial and chronological information, are
commonly used to infer cultural evolutionary dynamics in the past. For the study of the …

The lithic projectile points of the Late Upper Palaeolithic (∼ 14.7–11.7 ka BP) in Northern
Europe display a marked variation in size and design. The small tanged points characteristic …

Abstract During the Late Glacial and Early Holocene periods Scotland was a mountainous
north-westerly peninsula of Europe. Recently, a small number of sites across Scotland have …

ABSTRACT The Late Upper Palaeolithic Hamburgian tradition reflects the earliest known
human presence in northern Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum. We report here on the …

The Danish Palaeolithic began during the Lateglacial (approximately 12,350 calBC) and
lasted for about four thousand years. Only a handful of sites and organic stray finds have …