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Lithic technology

Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals

Alisa V. Zubova, Lydia V. Zotkina, John W. Olsen, Alexander M. Kulkov, Vyacheslav G. Moiseyev, Anna A. Malyutina, Roman V. Davydov, Sergey V. Markin, Eugene A. Maksimovskiy, Pavel V. Chistyakov, Andrey I. Krivoshapkin, Ksenia A. Kolobova

published 13 May 2026

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Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Aviad Agam, Ella Assaf, Bar Efrati, Yafit Kedar, Vlad Litov, Maayan Shemer, Ran Barkai

published 29 Dec 2025

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Pahon Cave, Gabon: New insights into the Later Stone Age in the African rainforest

Marie-Josée Angue Zogo, Isis Mesfin, Geoffroy de Saulieu, Wim Van Neer, Els Cornelissen, David Pleurdeau, Richard Oslisly

published 10 Dec 2025

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From meat to raw material: the Middle Pleistocene elephant butchery site of Casal Lumbroso (Rome, central Italy)

Beniamino Mecozzi, Ivana Fiore, Biagio Giaccio, Francesca Giustini, Stefano Mercurio, Lorenzo Monaco, Alessia Argento, Francesco Bucci Casari degli Atti di Sassoferrato, Isabella Caricola, Cristina Lemorini, Francesco Lucchini, Ilaria Mazzini, Maria Rita Palombo, Raffaele Sardella, Andrea Sposato, Enza Elena Spinapolice, Francesca Alhaique

published 08 Oct 2025

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Tracking the emergence of the Upper Palaeolithic in western Asia and Europe: A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Protoaurignacian and Southern Ahmarian lithics

Jacopo Gennai, Armando Falcucci, Vincent Niochet, Marco Peresani, Jürgen Richter, Marie Soressi

published 24 Sep 2025

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Pressure knapping west of the Rhine during the Mesolithic? New evidence from Kerkhove (Belgium)

Hans Vandendriessche, Colas Guéret

published 24 Sep 2025

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Reconstructing flexible pathways of Aurignacian blade and bladelet production at Vogelherd

Benjamin Schürch, Svenja Schray, Nicholas J. Conard

published 16 Sep 2025

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Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia)

Anđa Petrović, Jessica Bates, Aija Macāne, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little

published 10 Sep 2025

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Geoarchaeological research on site formation process, paleoenvironment, and human behaviors in the early Holocene of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Grzegorz Michalec, Rafał Sikora, Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska, Davaakhuu Odsuren, Antoni Wójcik, Piotr Moska, Marcin Szmit, Dashzeveg Bazargur, Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka, Józef Szykulski, Patryk Muntowski, Andrzej Gałaś, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Mirosław Masojć

published 02 Sep 2025

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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago?

Hugues Plisson, Alena V. Kharevich, Vladimir M. Kharevich, Pavel V. Chistiakov, Lydia V. Zotkina, Malvina Baumann, Eric Pubert, Ksenya A. Kolobova, Farhod A. Maksudov, Andrei I. Krivoshapkin

published 11 Aug 2025

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Finding the original mass: A machine learning model and its deployment for lithic scrapers

Guillermo Bustos-Pérez

published 28 Jul 2025

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The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency

David Nora, João Marreiros, Walter Gneisinger, Antonella Pedergnana, Telmo Pereira

published 18 Jul 2025

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Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece

Dalila De Caro, Moritz Kuhn, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Vangelis Tourloukis

published 30 Jun 2025

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