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The Becoming of a Prehistoric Landscape: Palaeolithic Occupations and Geomorphological Processes at Lojanik (Serbia)
New article published by Lesage, C.; Barbieri, A.; Galfi, J.; Jovanović, D.; Bogosavljević Petrović, V in Land. Accomplishing long-term plans to harvest and modify natural resources has been a crucial skill for the survival of our species since early Prehistory. Research on this first step of production mostly focuses on the provenience study of lithic…
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Speciated mechanism in Quaternary cervids (Cervus and Capreolus) on both sides of the Pyrenees: a multidisciplinary approach
New article published by Antigone Uzunidis, Anna Rufà, Ruth Blasco, Jordi Rosell, Jean-Philip Brugal, Pierre-Jean Texier & Florent Rivals in Scientific Reports. Cervids, and especially the red deer Cervus elaphus, are among the most regularly and abundantly recorded ungulates in Pleistocene/Paleolithic bone assemblages. Numerous Pleistocene or Holocene subspecies have been described, reinforcing their status as essential…
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Chimpanzee play sequences are structured hierarchically as games
New article published by Mielke A & Carvalho S. in PeerJ . Social play is ubiquitous in the development of many animal species and involves players adapting actions flexibly to their own previous actions and partner responses. Play differs from other behavioural contexts for which fine-scale analyses of action sequences are available, such as tool use…
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The role of artificial contact materials in experimental use-wear studies: A controlled proxy to understand use-wear polish formation
New article published by Schunk, L., Gneisinger, W., Calandra, I., & Marreiros, J., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Traceological studies aim at the recognition and the identification of use-wear traces on artefacts to gain a functional interpretation of past human technologies. However, the development of use-wear traces is known to be dependent on different…
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From Veld to Coast: Towards an Understanding of the Diverse Landscapes’ Uses by Past Foragers in Southern Africa
New article published by Aurore Val & Benjamin Collins, in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. In this brief contribution, we outline the aims of a collection entitled “From veld to coast: towards an understanding of the diverse landscapes’ uses by past foragers in southern Africa,” and we define its chronological, geographic and thematic framework. More info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00124-w
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The avian remains from El Juyo, Lower Magdalenian Cantabrian Spain
New article published by Anna Rufà, Ruth Blasco, Melissa Menschel, James T. Pokines, in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. El Juyo is one of the Cantabrian sites of Iberia known from long ago for its important Lower Magdalenian sequence. The present study reports the results of the zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the avian remains recovered…
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Evidence of specialized resource exploitation by Modern Humans in Western Iberia associated to Pleistocene and Holocene extreme environmental conditions
New article published by Pereira, T., Monteiro, P., Paixão, E., Nora, D., Évora, M., Simões, C., Detry, C., Assis, S., Carvalho, V., & Holliday, T., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Throughout prehistory, landscapes were repeatedly subjected to both global and localized climatic fluctuations that changed the regional environments where human groups lived. This instability…
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Organic tools of chimpanzees advance the search for the origin of percussive technology
An international team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Oxford, of which researchers João Marreiros and Susana Carvalho from ICArEHB are part of, has developed new methods that are able to detect external and internal damage inflicted on percussive wooden tools used by chimpanzees to crack nuts. This research…
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Mummification in the Mesolithic: New Approaches to Old Photo Documentation Reveal Previously Unknown Mortuary Practices in the Sado Valley, Portugal
New article published by Peyroteo-Stjerna, R., Nilsson Stutz, L., Mickleburgh, H., & Cardoso, J., in European Journal of Archaeology. Recently rediscovered photographs of the remains of thirteen individuals buried in the Sado Valley Mesolithic shell middens of Poças de S. Bento and Arapouco, excavated in 1960 and 1962, show the potential of revisiting excavation archives with…
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The enigmatic prehistoric schist “báculos”: about a specimen from Lapa da Galinha (Alcanena)
New article published by João Luís Cardoso, in Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras. Regarding the “crozier” collected at the beginning of the 20th century in Lapa da Galinha (Alcanena) which, due to its unique morphology, was valued by Manuel Heleno in the perspective of such similar pieces symbolically representing the polished stone axe, this and other…