Pyrotechnology, the ability for hominins to use fire as a tool, is considered to be one of the
most important behavioural adaptations in human evolution. While several studies have …

Several questions remain regarding the timing and nature of the Neanderthal-anatomically
modern human (AMH) transition in Europe. The situation in Eastern Europe is generally less …

Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) dispersed out of Africa roughly 120,000
years ago and again after 75,000 years ago. The early dispersal was geographically …

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—
phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million …

The Streletskian is central to understanding the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic on the East
European Plain. Early Streletskian assemblages are frequently seen as marking the …

Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithic
provides comprehensive knowledge on Neanderthals who lived throughout the European …

Western Europe is often used as the basis from which to understand the Aurignacian of
other regions. For some there is good inter-regional chronocultural agreement, whereas …

The Gravettian cultural phenomenon refers to the middle phase of the European Upper
Palaeolithic periodization (30-20 ky BP (uncal)). The previous pattern of the Gravettian in the …

The archaeological record of the early Upper Paleolithic on the central plain of Eastern
Europe yields evidence for the repeated hunting of horses in small herds. Several major …

The Holzman archaeological site, located along Shaw Creek in interior Alaska, contained
two mammoth ivory rods, of which one is bi-beveled, within a stratigraphically sealed cultural …