Abstract The Pontocaspian (Black Sea-Caspian Sea) region has a very dynamic history of
basin development and biotic evolution. The region is the remnant of a once vast Paratethys …

" Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for
the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from …

Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes.
Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented …

Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years
to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Anatolia lies at the gateway from Asia into Europe and has frequently been favoured as a
route for Early Pleistocene hominin dispersal. Although early hominins are known to have …

A survey in 2008 and 2009 on the southwestern coast of Crete in the region of Plakias
documented 28 preceramic lithic sites. Sites were identified with artifacts of Mesolithic type …

Acheulian biface industries based on the production of large flakes as the primary blank
used for handaxe and cleaver manufacturing have long been acknowledged in the study of …

The dispersal of Homo sapiens across Eurasia during MIS 3 in the Late Pleistocene is
marked by technological shifts and other behavioral changes, known in the archaeological …

Protracted pre-eruptive zircon residence is frequently detected in continental rhyolites and
can conflict with thermal models, indicating briefer magma cooling durations if scaled to …