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Stone age

Earliest geometries: A cognitive investigation of Howiesons Poort engraved ostrich eggshells

Valentina Decembrini, Ludovica Ottaviano, Mattia Cartolano, Enza Elena Spinapolice, Silvia Ferrara

published 11 Feb 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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On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared

Anastasia Nikulina, Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, Marco Davoli, Elena A. Pearce, Jens-Christian Svenning, Dave van Wees, Ralph Fyfe, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, Fulco Scherjon

published 22 Oct 2025

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Tracing Neanderthal mobility through the Romanian Carpathians: A GIS-based least-cost connectivity model

George Murătoreanu, Marian Cosac

published 10 Oct 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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The timing of the Castelnovisation of southwestern Europe: A Bayesian modelling insight from the Romagnano Loc III rock shelter sequence (Trento, Italy)

Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Alex Fontana, Vanessa Extrem-Membrado, Emilio Vacas-Fumero, Rossella Duches, Elisabetta Flor, Federica Fontana

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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Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory

Borja González-Rabanal, Marco Vidal-Cordasco, Jennifer R. Jones, Lucía Agudo Pérez, Eduardo Carmona-Ballestero, Belén López, Miguel Ángel Martín Merino, Ana Isabel Ortega, Lawrence G. Straus, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Cristina Vega-Maeso, Manuel R. González Morales, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo

published 28 Aug 2025

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Historical availability of arable land affects contemporaneous female labor and health outcomes

Chandan Kumar Jha, Sudipta Sarangi

published 04 Aug 2025

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Isotopes, herds, and landscape management practices: New insights on early farming communities in the Serpis Valley (Eastern Iberian Peninsula)

Vanessa Navarrete, Ismael Vaccaro, Pilar Escribá, Elena Grau, Oreto García-Puchol, Joan Bernabeu Aubán

published 27 Jun 2025

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Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400–year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates

Kevin Lidour, Noura Al Hameli, Rémy Crassard, Fabian D’Silva, Ahmed Al Haj

published 25 Jun 2025

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Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland

Sahra Talamo, Nicole Casaccia, Michael P. Richards, Lukas Wacker, Laura Tassoni, Adam Nadachowski, Anna Kraszewska, Magda Kowal, Jakub Skłucki, Christopher Barrington, Monica Kelly, Frankie Tait, Mia Williams, Carla Figus, Antonino Vazzana, Ginevra Di Bernardo, Matteo Romandini, Giovanni Di Domenico, Stefano Benazzi, Cristina Malegori, Giorgia Sciutto, Paolo Oliveri, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Pontus Skoglund, Andrea Picin, Paweł Valde‑Nowak

published 25 Jun 2025

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