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Patterns of Stone Tools
A comprehensive discussion of all stone tools discovered for the Liangzhu site, and an inference as to the deliberate selection of rock types and the...
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Human adaptive behavior in the Late Paleolithic of the Suifen River Basin
During the Late Paleolithic, the Suifen River Basin in northeastern China provided suitable conditions for the local prehistoric human to survive....
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Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
The Lake Victoria basin of Equatorial Africa was formed as a central depression between the eastern and western branches of the East African Rift...
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Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) is an archaeological and paleontological locality situated in north of Tanzania. It contains seven geological sedimentary...
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Where to Look for Our Stone Tools and Quarries?
A comprehensive discussion of rock formations in the “C-shaped region” around Liangzhu ancient city and along the Tiao Brook and its north, south and...
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Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa
Rose Cottage is a high altitude cave in the interior of southern Africa. Its six-meter-deep sediments contain a Middle Stone Age record that began...
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Africa
This chapter presents a brief overview of Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) sites and lithic assemblages in Africa as an introduction...
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Exploring the Potential of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Site Korolevo II (Ukraine): New Results on Stratigraphy, Chronology and Archaeological Sequence
The site of Korolevo II in western Ukraine, located in the border area between central and eastern Europe, is mainly known for its Early Upper...
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Frozen in the Ashes
Fossil footprints are very useful palaeontological tools. Their features can help to identify their makers and also to infer biological as well as...
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The Techno-typological and 3D-GM Analysis of Hatis-1: a Late Acheulian Open-Air Site on the Hrazdan-Kotayk Plateau, Armenia
Hatis-1 is a Lower Paleolithic open-air site on the Hrazdan-Kotayk Plateau of central Armenia. Although the site was tested in the 1980s, little has...
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A rock-cut tomb of the Mongol period in the Ilkhanid capital of Maraghe
By the time of Kublai’s death, the Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires including the Golden Horde [Kipchak] in the...
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Predetermined Refinement: the Earliest Levallois of the Kapthurin Formation
Levallois technology characterizes the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic, but one of its earliest manifestations is from the preceding Acheulean...
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Ancient Sea Fishing in Southern Primorye, Russian Far East, During the Neolithic and Early Iron Age
Fishing is one of the principal practices engaged in among ancient hunting and gathering economies. However, direct data pertaining to maritime...
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Isotopic Investigation of Tiwanaku Mobility During the Middle Horizon: Preliminary Data from the Site of Piñami in the Cochabamba Valley of Bolivia
The pre-Incan state of Tiwanaku (ca. AD 500–1100) spanned a large portion of the South American Andes with varying degrees of connection to the...
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Why Liangzhu “City”?
This chapter grounds the reader in the geography of the Hangzhu region and details the archaeological process behind the discovery of the original...
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New Insights on the Palaeo-archaeological Potential of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal
The study of the Palaeolithic in Senegal has made considerable progress in the last decade and has provided a renewed vision of the behavioral...
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Background: Evolutionary Classification and Fossil Dating
Formal biological classification is a reflection of relationships among species and a means of organizing information about them. Relationships are...
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Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast
Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are...
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Variation in Use of East Asian Late Paleolithic Weapons: a Study of Tip Cross-sectional Area of Stemmed Points from Korea
The transition from the Early to Late Paleolithic in Korea is characterized by the introduction of blade technology, stemmed points, end scrapers,...
