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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Upper Paleolithic"”.
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The Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Romania
The European Paleolithic record, as it exists today, is known primarily from excavations and research conducted in Western Europe, more specifically, southwestern France. The Paleolithic record of Eastern Europe, however, is poorly understood, especially in light of current debates concerning the …
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The middle to upper paleolithic transition in the Bukk Mountain region of central Europe
This thesis reports on the issue of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Central Europe, and focuses on the archeological evidence from Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sites in northeast Hungary and east Slovakia. Unlike most approaches to this issue in this part of the Old World, less …
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Il Gravettiano dell'Italia tirrenica nel contesto mediterraneo: definizione delle strategie di insediamento e mobilità attraverso lo studio delle materie prime e delle industrie litiche
… is the second chrono-cultural complex of the Upper Paleolithic after the Aurignacian. The Gravettian diffusion, throughout Europe, took place in a short span of time between 30.000 and 20.000 years BP. During this period, the climate instability due to the LGM approach created different …
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Alutiiq Engineering: The Mechanics and Design of Skeletal Technologies in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago
… transfer in many protohistoric contexts and the Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia.
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Image analysis in the morphological and morphometric study of teeth
… molars of Neanderthal and modern man of the upper Paleolithic era, specifically scanned in the paleoanthropology laboratory of the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA), in order to increase the paleoanthropological sample data and thereby make the final results of the analyses …
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Le faune del Paleolitico medio-superiore in Nord Italia: nuovi dati archeozoologici dal Riparo Mochi e dal Riparo Tagliente
… research, the transition from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to the Upper Paleolithic (UP) is widely debated and studied. During this period in Europe, the last Neanderthals were replaced by the first Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH). It is widely debated how and in what time frame this …
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Caratteristiche morfometriche della popolazione sarda dal Neolitico al XIX secolo: craniometria e statura
… populations of peninsular Italy and Europe, from Paleolithic to Modern period, have been also analysed to detect influences from and towards extra-Sardinian sources The analysis is based on multivariate techniques including R-Matrix analysis, principal coordinate analysis, discriminant functional …
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The Biomechanics of Spear Throwing: An Analysis of the Effects of Anatomical Variation on Throwing Performance, with Implications for the Fossil Record
… the implications of the patterns observed for Paleolithic fossil hominins.</p><p>Throwing performance, measured as the energy imparted to a thrown object: kinetic energy, Ke), was assessed in 41 experienced throwers throwing balls and spear-like objects. Joint linear and angular velocities, …