In the second half of the 19th century Pleistocene faunas were discovered in two sites, Sedia del Diavolo and Monte delle Gioie, contained in deposits of the Aniene River in the area of Rome (Latium, Italy). Fieldwork by A.C. Blanc in the late 1930's proved the association of fauna and lithic industry within fluvial deposits interbedded with volcanoclastic layers. A human femoral diaphysis and ...

We present here the results of a technological and typological analysis of the Acheulian and early Middle Paleolithic assemblages from Torre in Pietra (Latium, Italy) together with comparisons with the Acheulian small tools of Castel di Guido. The assemblages were never chronometrically dated before. We have now 40Ar/39Ar dates and ESR-U-series dates, within a geomorphological framework, which ...

A recommendation of: Levallois Pierre, Leblanc-Maridor Mily, Scollo Annalisa, Ferrari Paolo, Belloc Catherine, Fourichon Christine Combining several indicators to assess the effectiveness of tailor-made health plans in pig farms https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7789634

Backed flakes (core edge and pseudo-Levallois points) represent special products of Middle Paleolithic centripetal flaking strategies. Their peculiarities are due to their roles as both a technological objective in the management core convexities retain its geometric properties during reduction. In contexts, these backed implements commonly produced Levallois discoidal reduction sequences. from...

M. K. Tran, J. Levallois, J. Teyssier, A. B. Kuzmenko, G. Autès, O. V. Yazyev, P. Lerch, A. Ubaldini, E. Giannini, D. van der Marel, and A. Akrap Département de la Matière Condensée, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5...

Abstract Levallois technology characterizes the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic, but one of its earliest manifestations is from preceding Acheulean Kapthurin Formation, in Rift Valley east Africa. Here, ~ 400 ka, hominins were creating large flake blank handaxes and cleavers through knapping. Comparing these tools with other assemblages made on flakes shows those Formation are distinguishe...

Archaeological survey undertaken in central Saudi Arabia has revealed 29 surface sites attributed to the Arabian Middle Paleolithic based on the presence of Levallois blank production methods. Technological analyses on cores retrieved from Al-Kharj 22 have revealed specific reduction modalities used to produce flakes with predetermined shapes. The identified modalities, which are anchored withi...