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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Acheulean"”.
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Human Physiology and Acheulean Handaxe Design
Acheulean handaxes have played a leading role in our understanding of the cognitive and behavioural abilities of early hominins. An enormous amount of scholarly attention has been dedicated to better understanding the role these tools played in human evolution. Since the 1960’s, experimental …
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Components of Acheulean Lithic Assemblage Variability at Olorgesailie, Kenya
… results suggest that the cultural capacities of Acheulean stone-knappers have been consistently overestimated.
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FROM EAST TO NORTH-WEST AFRICA: MAGNETOCHRONOLOGY OF THE OLDEST AFRICAN ACHEULEAN SITES
… document the emergence and developments of the Acheulean lithic technology thought to be a major turning point in human evolution, representing over the last two decades a highly debated issue in the study of early technologies. In East Africa at Melka Kunture, located in the Ethiopian …
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Seasons of Change: Investigating the Role of Seasonality in the Oldowan-Acheulean Transition
… period in the archaeological record: the Oldowan-Acheulean transition. The thesis, entitled “Seasons of Change: Investigating the Role of Seasonality in the Oldowan-Acheulean Transition”, aims to show that a substantial component of the structure of the archaeological record can be plausibly …
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Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Reconstructing Mid-to Late-Pleistocene Environments in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya
… numerous archaeological findings of the Acheulean, Sangoan and Middle Stone Age occupations and most importantly, hominin cranium associated with the Acheulean hand axes. Evidence of past vegetation has hitherto been scarce, because the arid / semi-arid conditions are not conducive for …
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The phylogenesis of palaeoarts, and their coevolution in relation to artification
… of art-making can be tracked back to the Early-Acheulean ≈ 1.7 mya.
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Later Quaternary archaeological sequences in northern Tanzania
… Olduvai Gorge in order to ascertain the post-Acheulean archaeological sequence for the area. Shelter sequences document segments of time during the past 150,000 years and allow a new appreciation of the age and cultural associations of archaic Homo sapiens remains, the Eyasi crania, which are …
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New research methods for the analysis of fossil Anura ilia and their utility for reconstructing the palaeoenvironment of Swartkrans Cave
… from the Oldowan (Member 1, 2.2 Ma) and Acheulean (Member 3, 960 ka) deposits of Swartkrans Cave were analysed and compared as they provide snapshots of environmental conditions during periods covering the origin and extinction of P. robustus. The fossil Anura community indicates that a …
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Hominin cognitive and behavioural complexity in the Pleistocene: assessment through identity, intentionality and visual display
… may not have had their genesis with the mode 2 (Acheulean) biface, but rather may be more securely associated with mode 3 prepared core technologies and the advent of the composite tool and pigment use. This in turn intimates that the Social Brain Hypothesis predicts the potential cognitive …
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Using a multiproxy analysis of springbok fossils to track 2 million years of vegetation changes experienced by hominins in southern Africa.
… African Homo genus and associated hominin Acheulean toolkit.
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Visuospatial integration and cognitive archaeology: the relationship between body, material culture and human brain
La aparición de la industria lítica es un momento crucial en el linaje humano. La arqueología experimental, objecto de esta tesis, cuenta entre sus objetivos el conocer el posible uso y función de las herramientas de piedra. Los experimentos se basan en reproducir las condiciones manejo de los …
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Caracterización y variabilidad tecnomorfológica de las industrias achelenses de la cuenca baja del río Miño (no de la Peínsula Ibérica)
En esta tesis doctoral se aborda el análisis de la presencia humana durante el Pleistoceno Medio y Superior en la cuenca baja del río Miño (Galicia). Partiendo de la caracterización geomorfológica de las formas y depósitos fluviales se establece la relación con los diferentes episodios de presencia …
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Estudio traceológico de la industria lítica achelense de Thiongo Korongo (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania): aproximación experimental y arqueológica a la gestión económica a partir del análisis de filos
En esta investigación se presentan los datos obtenidos a partir del análisis arqueológico de las huellas de uso observadas en el material lítico asociado al yacimiento achelense de Thiongo Korongo (TK) (1,353±0,35 Ma) (Garganta de Olduvai, Tanzania). Este estudio se ha realizado a partir de las …