First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

E Méndez-Quintas, M Santonja, A Pérez-González… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract We describe a European Acheulean site characterised by an extensive
accumulation of large cutting tools (LCT). This type of Lower Paleolithic assemblage, with …

The Acheulean technocomplex of the Iberian Atlantic margin as an example of technology continuity through the Middle Pleistocene

E Méndez-Quintas, M Santonja, LJ Arnold… - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2020 - Springer
This article provides a synthesis of the Middle Pleistocene hominin record of West Iberia,
which comprises sites displaying abundant concentrations of large flake Acheulean (LFA) …

[HTML][HTML] Handaxe shape variation in a relative context

AJM Key - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2019 - Elsevier
The nature, extent and causes of shape variation within and between Acheulean handaxe
assemblages represent one of the most heavily theorised aspects of Lower Palaeolithic …

Linking environmental changes with human occupations between 900 and 400 ka in Western Europe

MH Moncel, A Landais, V Lebreton… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human occupation in Europe strongly fluctuated over the Quaternary. Archaeological
records suggest an intermittent human occupation in Western Europe between 900 and 500 …

Muscle recruitment and stone tool use ergonomics across three million years of Palaeolithic technological transitions

AJM Key, I Farr, R Hunter, SL Winter - Journal of Human Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Ergonomic relationships that minimize muscle activity relative to the creation of cutting stress
underpin the design of modern knives, saws, and axes. The Palaeolithic archaeological …

Investigating Neanderthal dispersal above 55 N in Europe during the last interglacial complex

TK Nielsen, BM Benito, JC Svenning, B Sandel… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
When dealing with the northern boundary of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) and
the question of whether or not they dispersed into Southern Scandinavia, two contradictory …

The Submerged Palaeo-Yare: A review of Pleistocene landscapes and environments in the southern North Sea

L Roberts, A Hamel, A Shaw, C Mellett… - Internet Archaeology, 2023 - intarch.ac.uk
The Submerged Palaeo-Yare: a review of Pleistocene landscapes and environments in the
southern North Sea. Roberts and Hamel. Internet Archaeology 61. Mini journal logo Home …

The Middle Palaeolithic from Belgium: Chronostratigraphy, territorial management and culture on a mosaic of contrasting environments

K Di Modica, M Toussaint, G Abrams, S Pirson - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in Belgium are represented in 442 find-sites
dispersed across a small territory with contrasting geographical and geological …

Middle Palaeolithic occupation of the southern North Sea Basin: evidence from the sandscaping sediments emplaced on the beach between Bacton and Walcott …

R Davis, N Ashton, R Bynoe, J Craven… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During the summer of 2019, the Bacton to Walcott Coastal Management Scheme involved
the emplacement on to the foreshore of 1.8 million cubic metres of sand and gravel dredged …

Early Neanderthal social and behavioural complexity during the Purfleet Interglacial: handaxes in the latest Lower Palaeolithic.

L DALE - 2022 - etheses.dur.ac.uk
Only a handful of 'flagship'sites from the Purfleet Interglacial (Marine Isotope Stage 9, c. 350-
290,000 years ago) have been properly examined, but the archaeological succession at the …