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Tales of Multifunctionality: a Systematic Quantitative Literature Review of Boomerangs Used as Retouchers in Australian Aboriginal Cultures
Boomerangs are among the most recognisable elements of Australian Aboriginal technology. In the popular mindset, the prevailing image of these wooden...
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Seasonality and Lithic Investment in the Oldowan
Seasonality is a critical driver of resource availability within individual generations and is therefore likely to have exerted selective pressures...
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Image forgery detection: comprehensive review of digital forensics approaches
Image is a powerful way to share information in the digital world. The sources of images are everywhere, magazines, newspapers, healthcare,...
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The Scraper Planes from Leopard Cave, Erongo Mountains, Namibia
Leopard Cave, Erongo Mountains, Namibia, delivered an important quantity of macrotools, mainly in local basalt, through a Later Stone Age sequence...
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Preliminary study of the characteristics of small-stone-industry in Jizhou area, Tian** in the Upper Paleolithic, based on Chuancangyu Dongling locality
Chuancangyu Dongling locality, which is located in Jizhou District of Tian** City, was found during the fieldwork by Production Center of Cultural...
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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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Rethinking the Capsian: Lithic Variability Among Holocene Maghreb Hunter-Gatherers
The Capsian, comprising the Typical Capsian and Upper Capsian facies, is a prominent North African prehistoric entity dating to the Early Holocene....
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Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia
Prehistoric and Archaeological research has pointed out the role of marine resources in modern humans’ cognitive and cultural developments. Maritime...
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Fincha Habera, Ethiopia
The Fincha Habera rock shelter (7.01° N, 39.72° E) is located in Africa’s largest alpine ecosystem, the Ethiopian Bale Mountains, which host the...
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Analysis of Techno-Functional Units
Every human-made tool is the product of a design process and fulfils a specific purpose. The functionality of the tool is thus inherent in its form....
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Working Stage Analysis
Stone tools appear at first glance as static objects. However, dynamic processes have been preserved on their surfaces in the form of negatives of...
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Qaleh Kurd Cave (Qazvin, Iran): Oldest Evidence of Middle Pleistocene Hominin Occupations and a Human Deciduous Tooth in the Iranian Central Plateau
The Iranian Central Plateau (ICP) with the Alborz and the Zagros Mountains is located at the crossroads between the Levant and the Caucasus to the...
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Higher Returns
The experimental visual chapter Higher Returns explores how the historical photographic process: Cyanotype printing merges seamlessly with Computer...
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Mount Dendi (DEN12-A02), Ethiopia
The DEN12-A02 site is situated at an altitude of 3000 meters above sea level (asl) on Mount Dendi in the western central highland of Ethiopia (Fig....
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Lithic assemblage from the xiagachacunnanshan site, chaoyang city, liaoning province
In April, 2021, the School of Archaeology of Jilin University and the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted a...
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Asfet (Gulf of Zula), Eritrea
Fieldwork around the southern periphery of the Gulf of Zula (Red Sea coast of Eritrea) in 2005 documented an archaeological locality called Asfet...
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From the Middle Paleolithic to the Modern Mind
The replacement of the Neanderthals in Europe was accompanied by the replacement of their Middle Paleolithic Culture by new societies and...
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Ndiayène Pendao and the Lower Senegal Valley, Senegal
This chapter synthesises the results of recent research in the Lower Senegal Valley. Palaeolithic surveys in the second half of the 20th century...
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Tiémassas, Senegal
Located close to the Senegalese coastline of the Atlantic Ocean (14.317° N, 16.933° W), Tiémassas is one of the westernmost Middle Stone Age (MSA)...
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Europe (2)
The western part of Russia, west of the Ural Mountains, is dealt with Europe in the PaleoAsiaDB. A total of 81 and 109 cultural layers are registered...