The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~ 400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by
technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout …

Early Levallois core technology is usually dated in Europe to the end of Marine Isotope
Stage (MIS) 9 and particularly from the beginning of MIS 8 to MIS 6. This technology is …

This paper provides a background to Neanderthal presence in Western Mediterranean
Europe. Habitual tool-use underpinned human survival in late Early Pleistocene western …

The middle Rhône valley, located at the southeastern margins of the Massif Central in
France, produced a large number of Middle Palaeolithic sites, most of which dated to the …

Bone retouchers are more common during the Middle Palaeolithic (from MIS 7 to 3) and are
now considered as a part of the tool kit of Neanderthals. In Middle Pleistocene and Lower …

The archaeological karstic infill site of Galería Complex, located within the Atapuerca system
(Spain), has produced a large faunal and archaeological record (Homo sp. aff …

Previous studies have suggested that the Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic transition was
associated with the earliest Neanderthals, but recent research has established that the …

The beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe is traditionally associated with
the emergence of new, more complex and standardised debitage technologies, such as …

Small mammal remains obtained from the European localities dated to the Eemian
(Mikulino) age have been analyzed for the first time at a regional scale based on the present …

The establishment of a chronology for late Middle Palaeolithic sites on the right bank of the
Rhône valley in southeastern France is important for the knowledge of Neandertal dynamics …