The time between Palaeolithic hearths

Á Herrejón-Lagunilla, JJ Villalaín, FJ Pavón-Carrasco… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Resolving the timescale of human activity in the Palaeolithic Age is one of the most
challenging problems in prehistoric archaeology. The duration and frequency of hunter …

Tracing the spatial imprint of Oldowan technological behaviors: A view from DS (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

F Diez-Martin, L Cobo-Sanchez, A Baddeley… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
DS (David's site) is one of the new archaeological sites documented in the same
paleolandscape in which FLK 22 was deposited at about 1.85 Ma in Olduvai Gorge …

Late Neanderthal short-term and specialized occupations at the Abri du Maras (South-East France, level 4.1, MIS 3)

MH Moncel, MG Chacón, D Vettese, MA Courty… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
Level 4.1 from the Abri du Maras (Ardèche, France) is chronologically attributed to the
beginning of MIS 3 and is one example of late Neanderthal occupations in the southeast of …

Neanderthal spatial patterns and occupation dynamics: a focus on the central region in Mediterranean Iberia

A Eixea, MG Chacón, A Bargalló, A Sanchis… - Journal of World …, 2020 - Springer
This paper focuses on the study of some Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from
Mediterranean Iberia to examine Neanderthal occupation patterns and territory …

[HTML][HTML] An instance of Neanderthal mobility dynamics: A lithological approach to the flint assemblage from stratigraphic unit viii of El Salt rockshelter (Alcoi, eastern …

A Mayor, S Sossa-Ríos, FJ Molina, L Pérez… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The relationship between hunter-gatherer group mobility and lithic raw material procurement
strategies is central to the study of Neanderthal productive behaviours. In this framework …

Multidisciplinary evidence of an isolated Neanderthal occupation in Abric del Pastor (Alcoi, Iberian Peninsula)

S Sossa-Ríos, A Mayor, CM Hernández, M Bencomo… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Testing Neanderthal behavioural hypotheses requires a spatial–temporal resolution to the
level of a human single occupation episode. Yet, most of the behavioural data on …

Identifying activity areas in a neanderthal hunting camp (the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter, Spain) via spatial analysis

A Moclán, R Huguet, B Márquez… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Spatial analysis has been much used to examine the distribution of archaeological remains
at Pleistocene sites. However, little is known about the distribution patterns at sites identified …

[HTML][HTML] It's getting hot in here–Microcontextual study of a potential pit hearth at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain

L Leierer, ÁC Alonso, L Pérez, ÁH Lagunilla… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
By studying combustion structures, which conceal information about anthropogenic activity,
we might learn about their makers. This is especially important for remote time periods like …

Facing the palimpsest conundrum: an archaeo-stratigraphic approach to the intra-site analysis of SHK Extension (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)

C Fraile-Márquez, F Diez-Martín… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, a “high-resolution” archaeological approach is being successfully applied in
a number of Paleolithic intra-site spatial analyses. This perspective encompasses the …

Quartzite procurement, not only in fluvial deposits: raw material characterisation of the lithic assemblage from Level XXII-R at El Esquilleu, Cantabrian Region, Spain.

A Prieto, I Yusta, M Garcia-Rojas… - Journal of Lithic …, 2021 - journals.ed.ac.uk
The consideration of quartzite as a secondary raw material has relegated in-depth research
of this raw material in favour of such other rocks as flint or obsidian. The latter two are the …