Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Palaeolithic"”.
-
Upper Palaeolithic female representations: an eye tracking study.
The Venus Figurine tradition of the Upper Palaeolithic has sparked significant academic interest over the last century. Past studies of these sculptures have produced an array of theories relating to their function, ranging from being symbols of fertility and attractiveness, to self-representations …
-
Biological evolution and population change in the European Upper Palaeolithic
The European Upper Palaeolithic, from 45,000 to 10,000 BP, marks the first appearance of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Europe. The skeletal morphology of these earliest modern humans has played a large role in the debate over modern human origins. While it is important to investigate the …
-
The music-archaeology of the Palaeolithic within its cultural setting.
… the music-archaeological evidence of the Upper Palaeolithic from Aurignacian onwards, set within the cultural and anatomical context of its creators: examining its evolutionary relationship with the events of the Mousterian and with successive musical-cultural behaviour during the Mesolithic and …
-
The palaeolithic of the Avon valley: a geoarchaeological approach to the hominin colonisation of Britain.
… of a geoarchaeological investigation into the Palaeolithic occupation of the Avon valley, Hampshire. In this area, the Palaeolithic archaeological record is dominated by three large concentrations of lithic artefacts, found at Bemerton, Milford Hill and Woodgreen, against a background scatter …
-
Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales.
… artefact studies concerning aspects of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales. The critical analysis connects the published works through the theoretical approach of biography. It draws out themes of archaeological, straigraphic and museum context where appropriate. The …
-
Human population history and its interplay with natural selection
… first analysed a high-coverage genome from Upper Palaeolithic Romania from ~37.8 kya, and demonstrated an early diversification of multiple lineages shortly after the out-of-Africa expansion (Chapter 2). I then investigated Late Upper Palaeolithic (~13.3ky old) and Mesolithic (~9.7 ky old) samples …
-
A comprehensive analysis of long bone curvature in Neanderthals and modern humans using 3D morphometrics
… (femur, ulna, radius) in Neanderthals, Upper Palaeolithic and recent modern humans, 2) compare adult bone curvature between these populations, and 3) test hypotheses on the effects of climate, body size, and activity patterns on curvature. Comparisons between and within populations were made …
-
The Agricultural Transition in Upper Nubia: An Analysis of Mandibular Morphology and Oral Health
… Nubian populations. The sample contained a Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer population from Lower Nubia (c. 13,000–9000 BC), as well as samples representing four cultural periods in Upper Nubia (Sudanese Neolithic c. 5000–4000 cal BC, Kerma Ancien c. 2500–2050 BC, Kerma Classique c. 1750–1500 BC …
-
Analyse de la répartition spatiale des restes fauniques du site éémien de Caours (Somme). Apport des systèmes d'information géographique.
The Palaeolithic deposit of Caours, located in the Somme, is the only Eemian site in Northern Europe in interglacial context. This site show an incredible conservation of faunal remains spread out over a large area and a recurrence Human occupation. That gave us a large amount of data about this …
-
In the human past, is the perennial consumption of starch a deep or shallow phenomenon?
… especially adapted to a starch diet within the Palaeolithic, making starch consumption a deep phenomenon. Yet there is no deep time archaeological evidence of starch consumption by early humans. A significant body of evidence attests to the increasing starch diet of humans from the Upper …
-
Ecology and climates of early Middle Pleistocene interglacials in Britain
… climates were beneficial to contemporary Lower Palaeolithic populations in Northwest Europe.
-
Multi-isotope analysis and the reconstruction of prey species palaeomigrations and palaeoecology
… the biogeography and feeding ecology of Middle Palaeolithic prey-species. The elevated d13C values in reindeer bone collagen compared to the other species indicates lichen feeding and the prevalence of this niche feeding behaviour in this ancestral species. The sequential-sampling and strontium …
-
Late Quaternary vegetation history of Craven, Yorkshire Dales.
… of the Craven area from the late Upper Palaeolithic onwards.
-
CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… human-corvid interactions in England from Palaeolithic to present. By combining avian ecology, historical literature, art historical context, artefactual representation, archaeological presence, zooarchaeological analysis and isotopic data, it provides a detailed diachronic analysis that …
Page 1 of 2