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Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Land (2012). Oct2023, Vol. 12 Issue 10, p1882. 17p.
Abstract: The Qinling Mountain Range (QMR), where more than 500 hominin fossils and Paleolithic sites have been preserved, was a major center of hominin evolution and settlement and an important link for the hominin migration and dispersal between the north and ...
The Evolution of Paleolithic Hunting Weapons: A Response to Declining Prey Size.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Quaternary. Sep2023, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p46. 20p.
Abstract: This paper examines the hypothesis that changes in hunting weapons during the Paleolithic were a direct response to a progressive decline in prey size. The study builds upon a unified hypothesis that explains Paleolithic human evolutionary and behavior...
Foxes in Retrospect—Unraveling Human-Fox Relationships through Fox Tooth Ornaments in the Swabian Jura.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Quaternary. Sep2023, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p50. 36p.
Abstract: Personal ornaments play an important role in our understanding of human cultural and behavioral change during the Upper Paleolithic, providing insights into intangible aspects of human cultural behavior. Some ornament forms are better studied than othe...
An Analytical Approach to the Traces of Settlement of the City of Sakarya from Antiquity to the Present.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): DEPARCH Journal of Design Planning & Aesthetics Research. Autumn2023, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p172-199. 28p.
Abstract: Dünyanın bilinen tarihine göre ilk topluluklar yerleşim için genellikle deniz, göl ve akarsu kenarlarındaki doğal mağara ortamlarını seçmiştir ve zamanla kara içlerine doğru yayılmıştır. Bu topluluklar, yeryüzünün doğal akışında süregelen su yükselmele...
Assessing Systematic Blade Production in the Indian Subcontinent with Special Reference to Eastern Gujarat.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Quaternary. Jun2023, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p25. 20p.
Abstract: Blades as a component of lithic assemblages hold significant importance to understanding the more recent part of human evolution, particularly with regard to the emergence and adaptations of Homo sapiens. The systematic production of elongated stone bl...
Immunomodulatory, Anti-Inflammatory, and Anti-Cancer Properties of Ginseng: A Pharmacological Update.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Molecules. May2023, Vol. 28 Issue 9, p3863. 19p.
Abstract: Ginseng, a medicinal plant of the genus Panax, boasts a rich historical record of usage that dates back to the Paleolithic period. This botanical is extensively acknowledged and consumed in Eastern countries for its therapeutic properties, and, in West...
Chelonians from the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Mealhada (Coimbra, Portugal): An Update.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Diversity (14242818). Feb2023, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p243. 15p.
Abstract: The results of a review of the chelonian remains retrieved in the excavations carried out in Mealhada (Coimbra, central Portugal) are presented here. Mealhada is a Portuguese Middle Palaeolithic classical site, discovered at the end of the 19th century...
Mountain Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Land (2012). Jan2023, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p96. 42p.
Abstract: Past human mountain settlement patterns and resource and high-altitude landscape exploitation are underexplored research fields in archaeology. This study presents data gathered during more than 20 years of fieldwork in the Pindus range of Western Mace...
Neanderthal Hunting Weapons Re-Assessed: A Tip Cross-Sectional Area Analysis of Middle Palaeolithic Point Assemblages from South Eastern France.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Quaternary. Mar2023, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p17. 23p.
Abstract: There are many opinions and arguments about the types of weapons that Neanderthals may have used. We list five assumptions about Neanderthal weapon-assisted hunting and suggest that the tip cross-sectional area (TCSA) approach may be used to assess the...
Human Peopling and Population Dynamics in Sicily: Preliminary Analysis of the Craniofacial Morphometric Variation from the Paleolithic to the Contemporary Age.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Heritage (2571-9408). Feb2023, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p1187-1208. 22p.
Abstract: The geographic position, isolation, and the long and dynamic history of colonization created a human context in Sicily that allows for a particular anthropological study; information about "migratory flow" and "population influx" could be investigated ...