Middle Palaeolithic Chert Exploitation Pits near Qena (Upper Egypt)

Anaemia among schoolchildren in Qena Governorate, Upper Egypt.

A study was carried out during January/February 2001 in Deshna and Armant Districts of Qena Governorate, Upper Egypt, to establish the prevalence of anaemia among schoolchildren aged 6 to 11 years and define appropriate control interventions in the area. Haemoglobin levels were measured directly in schools using a portable spectrophotometer. The mean (SD) level of haemoglobin in 1844 schoolchil...

7. Faunal Exploitation Patterns along the Southern Slopes of the Caucasus during the Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic

Thermoluminescence Dating of a Middle Palaeolithic Occupation at Sodmein Cave, Red Sea Mountains (Egypt)

The Palaeolithic sequence from Sodmein Cave in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, near Quseir, contains seven stratified archaeological levels from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. The lowest archaeological level (Middle Palaeolithic level 5) consists of huge fireplaces associated with a lithic assemblage in which Nubian Levallois technology and bifacial tools are present. From this level, six frag...

Taphonomic History of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Faunal Assemblage from Ortvale Klde, Georgian Republic

We present the results of a detailed taphonomic and zooarchaeological study of the faunal remains from the late Middle Palaeolithic (LMP) and early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) bone assemblage of Ortvale Klde, Georgian Republic. A series of taphonomic tests and analyses are employed to reconstruct the depositional history of the bone assemblage and investigate LMP (Neanderthal) and EUP (Modern huma...

Tool Standardization in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic: a Closer Look (with comments)

lithic tools were made on blades (a dimensional subset of flakes), then it is logical to expect that there would be less dimensional variability in Upper Palaeolithic tools than in their Middle Palaeolithic counterparts, which tended to be made on a more widely shaped range of blanks. Perusal of artefact illustrations from European site reports certainly tends to reinforce this impression of gr...