It is 50 years since Sieveking et al. published their pioneering research in Nature on the
geochemical analysis of artefacts from Neolithic flint mines in southern Britain. In the …

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 …

The present work represents the first attempt using an archaeometric approach to
characterize the potential chert outcrops and retrace the provenance of the chert raw …

Raw material analyses of prehistoric stone tool assemblages can reveal insight into mobility
and exchange patterns in hunter-gatherer populations by reconstructing the circulation of …

Abstract The Eastern Romanian Carpathians harbor a rich Upper Paleolithic archaeological
record, mostly concentrated on the Bistrița river terraces. Despite extensive field research …

In order to reconstruct the procurement pattern of lithics in the Moravian/Silesian Gravettian
culture and to make a comparison with neighbouring areas, raw material analysis from five …

A major impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on the East-Central European Upper
Paleolithic (UP) demographic and cultural adaptation is now largely acknowledged …

This paper presents preliminary results of fieldwork conducted at the Upper Palaeolithic
open-air site Mitoc-Malu Galben in northeastern Romania. The site has a~ 14m deep loess …

Cherts originating from carbonate lacustrine environments have been widely exploited by
Upper Palaeolithic hunter‐gatherers in the south of the Pyrenees. Archaeo‐petrographic …

Abstract Caune de Belvis (Aude, France) is located in the northern slopes of the eastern
Pyrenees, in south-east France. Excavations at the site during the final decades of the past …