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Web Sites in Category Paleolithic
And Then Came Clothing and Speech - Mark Roberts discusses why was Europe colonised by hominids half a million years ago. Published in the Journal of British Archaeology in 1996.
From Art and Tools Came Human Origins - Larry Barham reports in British Archaeology that evidence of modern human behaviour 200,000 years old may have been found in Africa.
Global Land Environments during the last 130,000 Years - A description of climatic conditions during the Paleolithic.
Ice Ages - A guide to the climatic changes that occurred during the Paleolithic.
Neanderthal - An illustrated overview of Neanderthal living.
Old Stone Age - Shannon McPherron (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania) report on research at several sites in Europe and Abydos in Egypt.
Origin and Evolution of Blade Technologies in the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). The origin of blade technology used to be located at the Upper Paleolithic and identified with anatomically modern humans. (PDF)
Pleistocene Mammals - A image gallery of megafauna on display at the Russian Paleontological Institute.
Primitive Humans in China - Features an overview chronology and provides brief descriptions of sites and fossil finds.
Reflections on the Style-Function Debate - Summary of the style-versus-function debate regarding Paleolithic stone tools. Includes references.
Rhinoceros Tooth Tools at Dadong Cave, Southern China - Sari Miller-Antonio, Lynne A. Schepartz and Deborah Bakken describe evidence suggesting that non-lithic materials were used in the tool kits of Middle Pleistocene Chinese assemblages.
Struggling artists of the Ice Age - An article that argues that Paleolithic cave art is a depiction of human and animal relationships in prehistory.
The Middle Palaeolithic Site of Wallertheim - A brief introduction to site of Wallertheim is located in the Rheinhessen region of Germany, approximately 25km southwest of the city of Mainz, and is situated on the former floodplain of the Wiesbach river
The Paleolithic Archaeology of Weasel Cave - A report on a site located in Ossetia, Russia presented by Nazim Hidjrati, Larry Kimball, and Todd Koetje at the 1996 Paleoanthropology meetings.
The Paleolithic Diet - A description of the eating habits of our ancestors. Features commentary derived from a email discussion list on nutrition.
The World’s Oldest Spears - 400,000bp Lower Palaeolithic hunting station of Homo erectus has produced not only thousands of well-preserved mammal remains and eight wooden spears.
What the Hominid Ate - A dietary analysis based on carbon atoms in the tooth enamel of fossil ancestors.
Related Categories:
Science > Social Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
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sci.anthropology.paleo – Google
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