The Badegoulian technocomplex holds a special place among the West European Upper Paleolithic (UP) cultural traditions. Often understated or even bypassed by main prehistorical overviews, caught between fascinating Solutrean and “classic” Magdalenian technocomplexes, it nonetheless probably marks turning point in evolving trajectory of hunter-gatherers present-day France. deep typo-technologica...

abstract  the discovery of cave paintings made by upper paleolithic artists in western europe was an astonishing find about the human past. they were discovered in the late nineteenth century and involved the scientific community with the new subject under the title of prehistory art. since the discovery of the astonishing relics, several theories proposed by different specialists with special ...

Excavated from 2009 to 2019 by the Tübingen-Armenian Paleolithic Project, Aghitu-3 Cave is only stratified Upper site in Armenia. Sedimentary deposits range 39,000 24,000 calibrated years before present (ka cal BP). The main occupations occurred during accumulation of Archaeological Horizon (AH) VI between 36 and 32 ka BP AH III 29 24 BP. was deposited under warm humid conditions, while shows e...

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 98 Mansi, an ancient group (formerly known as "Vogul") of Uralic-speaking fishers and hunters on the eastern slope of the northern Ural Mountains, were analyzed for sequence variants by restriction fragment--length polymorphism analysis, control-region sequencing, and sequencing of additional informative sites in the coding region. Although 63.3% of the mtDNA de...

“A are history defaced,” argued Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning; they are “...remnants of history which...escaped the shipwreck of time” (1). These remnants, battered by the elements and scattered around the globe, are all we have to piece together human heritage. In recent years, radiocarbon dating techniques (e.g., accelerator mass spectrometry) have allow...

paleolithic lithic assemblages are traditionally described on the bases of presence of a variety of tool types(typology) and of different knapping technologies. in this study we tried to investigate whether the presence ofdifferent groups of scrapers in the mar-tarik site assigned to the middle paleolithic represent specific function orjust different stages of the reduction process and constant...

While predetermined débitage technologies are recognized beginning with the middle Acheulian, the Middle Paleolithic is usually associated with a sharp increase in their use. A study of scraper-blank technology from three Yabrudian assemblages retrieved from the early part of the Acheulo-Yabrudian complex of Tabun Cave (ca. 415-320 kyr) demonstrates a calculated and preplanned production, even ...