Initial upper palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China

SX Yang, JF Zhang, JP Yue, R Wood, YJ Guo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The geographic expansion of Homo sapiens populations into southeastern Europe occurred
by∼ 47,000 years ago (∼ 47 ka), marked by Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) technology. H …

Curated character of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic artefact assemblages in Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)

T Tsanova, V Delvigne, S Sirakova, E Anastasova… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
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 …

A Cold Habitat: Mapping Blade Assemblages Between the Siberian Altai and the Tibetan Plateau During MIS 3

P Zhang, R Haas, C Paine, X Zhang… - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2024 - Springer
How and why early hunter–gatherers expanded into the challenging environments of the
Tibetan Plateau during the Pleistocene remain largely unexplained. The discovery of the …

Regional variation in the shift towards microlithization: The development of early microblade technology in North China

C Zhao, Y Wang, JP Walden - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2023 - Elsevier
We reconstruct the early developmental sequence of microblade technology in North China
through comprehensive analysis of lithic remains dating from∼ 27–20 cal. ka BP. Lithic …

Initial Upper Paleolithic in North China: New data from Shuidonggou locality 9

F Peng, G Chen, S Pei, S Lin, X Gao - Archaeological Research in Asia, 2023 - Elsevier
The timing and dispersal of modern humans into Northeast Asia has been a subject of hot
debate, fueled by increasing discoveries of previously unknown human species in the …

[PDF][PDF] Increases in small blank cutting edge efficiency during the Upper Paleolithic at Tolbor, Mongolia

CL Johnson, T Bolorbat, MN Grote… - … Trends in Blank …, 2024 - escholarship.org
The shift from large blade production towards an emphasis on bladelets, and later
microblades, during the Upper Paleolithic in East Asia denote two major events of lithic …

Changes in raw material selection unlikely driven by constraints on flake cutting edge efficiency at Shuidonggou Locality 2, China

CL Johnson, F Peng, M Grote, P Zhang… - … Trends in Blank …, 2024 - search.proquest.com
The widespread distribution of nondescript, flake-based lithic assemblages within the Late
Pleistocene archaeological record of East Asia remains one of its most defining and …

[引用][C] Re-Evaluating Human Dispersal Patterns Over Central & Eastern Asia

A Jenkins - 2023