[PDF][PDF] Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions

EML Scerri, EE Spinapolica - Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 2019 - pure.mpg.de
Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions
Page 1 JASs Invited Reviews Journal of Anthropological Sciences the JASs is published by the …

More than surface finds: Nubian Levallois core metric variability and site distribution across Africa and Southwest Asia

O Samawi, E Hallinan - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2024 - Springer
Nubian Levallois cores are currently one of the most debated artefact types in Palaeolithic
archaeology. Previous work has focused mainly on the definition and technological …

The pattern of emergence of a Middle Stone Age tradition at Gademotta and Kulkuletti (Ethiopia) through convergent tool and point technologies

K Douze, A Delagnes - Journal of Human Evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gademotta and Kulkuletti site complex, located in the central part of the Main
Ethiopian Rift, is known to be one of the richest early Middle Stone Age (MSA) sequences in …

Acheulo-Yabrudian and Early Middle Paleolithic at Hayonim Cave (Western Galilee, Israel): Continuity or break?

L Meignen, O Bar-Yosef - Journal of Human Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
The long archeological sequence exposed during our renewed excavations in Hayonim
Cave sheds new light on the striking technological changes observed at the boundary …

Technology and function of middle stone age points. Insights from a combined approach at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa

K Douze, M Igreja, V Rots, D Cnuts… - Culture history and …, 2020 - Springer
Edge convergence, which is typical for pointed tools, is a major morphological feature
contributing to the definition of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA). The multifaceted …

Explanations of variability in Middle Stone Age stone tool assemblage composition and raw material use in Eastern Africa

J Blinkhorn, M Grove - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA) corresponds to a critical phase in human evolution,
overlapping with the earliest emergence of Homo sapiens as well as the expansions of …

A reply to Sahle and Braun's reply to 'The pattern of emergence of a Middle Stone Age tradition at Gademotta and Kulkuletti (Ethiopia) through convergent tool and …

K Douze, A Delagnes, V Rots, B Gravina - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Sahle and Braun's (in press) recent comments on our identification (Douze and Delagnes,
2016) of diachronic trends in Middle Stone Age point traditions in several lithic assemblages …

Garba III (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia): a MSA site with archaic Homo sapiens remains revisited

M Mussi, F Altamura, R Macchiarelli, RT Melis… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Garba III, in the upper Awash Valley of Ethiopia, is one of the many sub-sites of Melka
Kunture, where the overall archaeological record starts at c. 1.8 Ma. Garba III was excavated …

Lithic variability and cultures in the East African Middle Stone Age

EE Spinapolice - Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can We …, 2020 - Springer
Lithics are the most abundant archaeological evidence from the remote past, however the
way they are used to reconstruct past human groups is often biased. The Middle Stone Age …

L'assemblage lithique du site Acheuléen de Namib IV (Namib central, Namibie)

I Mesfin, D Pleurdeau, H Forestier - L'anthropologie, 2021 - Elsevier
Résumé En Namibie, malgré une riche documentation sur le Middle et Later Stone Age, les
sites Earlier Stone Age sont principalement connus en surface du fait d'important processus …