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Physical anthropology

Particle size distribution: An experimental study using southern African reduction methods and raw materials

Paloma de la Peña, Marc Thomas, Tumelo R. Molefyane

New evidence for rice harvesting in the early Neolithic Lower Yangtze River, China

Jiajing Wang, Jiangping Zhu, Dongrong Lei, Leping Jiang

Continuity and change in lithic techno-economy of the early Acheulian on the Ethiopian highland: A case study from locality MW2; the Melka Wakena site-complex

Tegenu Gossa, Erella Hovers

Knapping force as a function of stone heat treatment

Klaus G. Nickel, Patrick Schmidt

Diachronic shifts in lithic technological transmission between the eastern Eurasian Steppe and northern China in the Late Pleistocene

Chao Zhao, Youping Wang, John P. Walden

Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

Emma M. Finestone, Paul S. Breeze, [ ... ], Michael Petraglia

The effect of worked material hardness on stone tool wear

Alice Rodriguez, Kaushik Yanamandra, [ ... ], Radu Iovita

A marine isotope stage 11 coastal Acheulian workshop with associated wood at Amanzi Springs Area 1, South Africa

Andy I. R. Herries, Lee J. Arnold, [ ... ], Matthew V. Caruana

Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago)

Andrea Picin, Oshan Wedage, [ ... ], Michael Petraglia

After the blades: The late MIS3 flake-based technology at Shuidonggou Locality 2, North China

Peiqi Zhang, Nicolas Zwyns, [ ... ], Xing Gao

Socio-economic dynamics of Magdalenian hunter-gatherers: Functional perspective

Eugénie Gauvrit Roux

Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Tristan Carter, Vassilis Kilikoglou

The origin of chert in the Aurignacian of Vogelherd Cave investigated by infrared spectroscopy

Benjamin Schürch, Stefan Wettengl, [ ... ], Patrick Schmidt

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