This article presents the results of a comparative study personal ornaments from Xiaogushan Cave in interregional and regional context formation modern behavior. is Paleolithic Neolithic site Northeast China. In Upper layers site, apart tools, were found— pendants made animal teeth, decorated bone disc. The date matter debate; 2 3 to ~30 ka BP. Like other artifacts (harpoon, needles, point), to...

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Measurement of morphological variation is essential to our understanding of human evolution. At least two classes of statistics can be used to describe variation: (1) statistics such as the variance that measure average dissimilarity (distance), and (2) statistics such as the range of variation that measure maximal dissimilarity. Either kind of measure may be meaningfully employed depending on ...

The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition is a key period of change in the prehistory of the Old World and one of the most studied issues in paleoanthropology, as the nature of the transition(s) is still, after at least a century of archaeological research, largely unknown. Many of the issues at stake in the transition relate to the problem of building a reliable chronology for this period, wh...