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A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

A 30000 year old ivory figurine from Hohle Fels near Schelklingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 December 2001

A Unified Lithic Taxonomy Based on Patterns of Core Reduction

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A critical assessment of the Protoaurignacian lithic technology at Fumane Cave and its implications for the definition of the earliest Aurignacian.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany

scientific article (publication date: 14 May 2009)

A new approach for deciphering between single and multiple accumulation events using intra-tooth isotopic variations: Application to the Middle Pleistocene bone bed of Schöningen 13 II-4.

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

A previously undescribed organic residue sheds light on heat treatment in the Middle Stone Age.

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

A quantitative paleoclimatic reconstruction of the non-analogue environment of oxygen isotope stage 3: new data from small mammal records of southwestern Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 November 2021

A systematic review of wild grass exploitation in relation to emerging cereal cultivation throughout the Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic of the Fertile Crescent

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

A tribute to Narr (1952): On the stratigraphy of Upper Palaeolithic types and type groups ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 December 2021

An evolutionary perspective on coastal adaptations by modern humans during the Middle Stone Age of Africa

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Ancient <scp>DNA</scp> reveals interstadials as a driver of common vole population dynamics during the last glacial period

scientific article published in 2022

Ancient DNA analyses reveal high mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity and parallel morphological evolution of late pleistocene cave bears

scientific article published in August 2002

Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals

scientific article published in 2023

Anthropology. Chronicling modern human's arrival in Europe

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Archaeobotanical Archiving--Response

scientific article published in Science

Assemblage variability and bifacial points in the lowermost Sibudan layers at Sibudu, South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published in August 2016

Author Correction: A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Behavioural ecology of Late Pleistocene bears (Ursus spelaeus, Ursus ingressus): Insight from stable isotopes (C, N, O) and tooth microwear

scientific article

Blade and bladelet production at Hohle Fels Cave, AH IV in the Swabian Jura and its importance for characterizing the technological variability of the Aurignacian in Central Europe

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Bone taphonomy of the Schöningen "Spear Horizon South" and its implications for site formation and hominin meat provisioning

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

Central European Woolly Mammoth Population Dynamics: Insights from Late Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Characterizing the Late Pleistocene MSA Lithic Technology of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in 2014

Characterizing the Lower Paleolithic bone industry from Schöningen 12 II: A multi-proxy study

scientific article published in December 2015

Chronometric investigations of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Zagros Mountains using AMS radiocarbon dating and Bayesian age modelling

scientific article

Coastal adaptations and the Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages from Hoedjiespunt 1 in the Western Cape, South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on April 28, 2013

Combined Non-invasive PIXE/PIGE Analyses of Mammoth Ivory from Aurignacian Archaeological Sites

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Comments on 'Human-climate interaction during the early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian' by Banks et al.

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Cultural modernity: consensus or conundrum?

scientific article (publication date: 27 April 2010)

Current research on the settlement dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age

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Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

scientific article

Dental Wear Evidence for Browsing and Grazing Dietary Traits in the Giant Deer from the Late Pleistocene of Central Europe

scientific article published in 2022

Did climate determine Late Pleistocene settlement dynamics in the Ach Valley, SW Germany?

scientific article published on 2 May 2019

Documenting ancient DNA quality via alpha satellite amplification and assessment of clone sequence diversity.

scientific article published in January 2002

Early Evidence for the Extensive Heat Treatment of Silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (Layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa

scientific article

Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa

scientific article published in 2021

Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones - Guidelines for safe X-ray imaging

scientific article

Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones - Guidelines for safe x-ray imaging

Emergence of agriculture in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran

scientific article published on July 2013

Epipaleolithic shell beads from Damascus Province, Syria

Evaluating morphological variability in lithic assemblages using 3D models of stone artifacts

scientific article published in December 2012

Examining the Causes and Consequences of Short-Term Behavioral Change during the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

scientific article

Excavations at Ghār-e Boof in the Fars Province of Iran and its bearing on models for the evolution of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains

scholarly article by Elham Ghasidian published in September 2017

Excavations at Schöningen and paradigm shifts in human evolution

scientific article

Fox dietary ecology as a tracer of human impact on Pleistocene ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

scientific article published on 29 June 2022

Hammer or crescent wrench? Stone-tool form and function in the Aurignacian of southwest Germany

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Human teeth from securely stratified Middle Stone Age contexts at Sibudu, South Africa ⬇️

Investigation of equid paleodiet from Schöningen 13 II-4 through dental wear and isotopic analyses: Archaeological implications

scientific article

Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: Prey choice, competition and implications for extinction

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Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation

scientific article (publication date: 31 August 2004)

Large-scale mitogenomic analysis of the phylogeography of the Late Pleistocene cave bear

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

MIDDLE STONE AGE SETTLEMENT AND LAND USE AT THE OPEN-AIR SITES OF GEELBEK AND ANYSKOP , SOUTH AFRICA

scientific article published on 25 October 2005

Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Midden or Molehill: The Role of Coastal Adaptations in Human Evolution and Dispersal

article published in 2019

Middle and Later Stone Age shellfish exploitation strategies and coastal foraging at Hoedjiespunt and Lynch Point, Saldanha Bay, South Africa

New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany.

scientific article

New perspectives on human subsistence during the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura, Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Nitrogen isotope analyses of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), 45,000 BP to 9,000 BP: Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

scientific article

Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe.

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

On the evidence for human use and control of fire at Schöningen

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Optimized DNA sampling of ancient bones using Computed Tomography scans

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Overview and new results from large-scale excavations in Schöningen

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

scientific article published on 01 March 2023

Palaeolithic ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art.

scientific article published in December 2003

Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on the small vertebrates from the Middle Paleolithic of Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 May 2022

Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany

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Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: a preliminary report

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Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

scientific article

Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

Pleistocene bears in the Swabian Jura (Germany): Genetic replacement, ecological displacement, extinctions and survival

scholarly article

Pressure flaking to serrate bifacial points for the hunt during the MIS5 at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)

scientific article

Production sequences of ostrich eggshell beads and settlement dynamics in the Geelbek Dunes of the Western Cape, South Africa

ROCEEH Out Of Africa Database

Database about human origins

Radiocarbon dating the appearance of modern humans and timing of cultural innovations in Europe: new results and new challenges

scientific article

Radiocarbon dating the late Middle Paleolithic and the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura

scientific article

Reconstructing subsistence practices: taphonomic constraints and the interpretation of wild plant remains at aceramic Neolithic Chogha Golan, Iran

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Regional patterns of diachronic technological change in the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Residue and microwear analyses of the stone artifacts from Schöningen

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran)

scientific article

Scavenging and Processing of Whale Meat and Blubber by Later Stone Age People of the Geelbek Dunes, Western Cape Province, South Africa

scientific article published in December 2003

Site formation processes and Late Natufian domestic spaces at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria: A micromorphological perspective

scientific article

Site fragmentation, hominin mobility and LCT variability reflected in the early Acheulean record of the Okote Member, at Koobi Fora, Kenya

scholarly article by Darya Presnyakova et al published 26 September 2018 in Journal of Human Evolution

Small mammal taxonomy, taphonomy, and the paleoenvironmental record during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic at Geißenklösterle Cave (Ach Valley, southwestern Germany)

scholarly article

Sudden replacement of cave bear mitochondrial DNA in the late Pleistocene

scientific article

Technological differences between Kostenki 17/II (Spitsynskaya industry, Central Russia) and the Protoaurignacian: Reply to Dinnis et al. (2019)

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe

The Use of Ochre and Painting During the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura in the Context of the Development of Ochre Use in Africa and Europe

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The Zooarchaeology of Sirgenstein Cave: A Middle and Upper Paleolithic site in the Swabian Jura, SW Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 April 2021

The behavioral and cultural stratigraphic contexts of the lithic assemblages from Schöningen

scientific article published on 23 August 2015

The depositional environments of Schöningen 13 II-4 and their archaeological implications

scientific article published on September 2015

The evolution of Paleolithic hominin–carnivore interaction written in teeth: Stories from the Swabian Jura (Germany)

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The exploitation of mammoth in the Swabian Jura (SW-Germany) during the Aurignacian and Gravettian period

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The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu

scientific article published on 3 April 2022

The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

scientific article

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The role of foxes in the Palaeolithic economies of the Swabian Jura (Germany) ⬇️

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2014)

Tracking possible decline of woolly mammoth during the Gravettian in Dordogne (France) and the Ach Valley (Germany) using multi-isotope tracking (13C, 14C, 15N, 34S, 18O)

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Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd

scientific article

Upper Palaeolithic archaeobotany of Ghar-e Boof cave, Iran: a case study in site disturbance and methodology

Using new morphological criteria to identify domesticated emmer wheat at the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan (Iran)

article published in 2015

Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene

Water availability and landuse during the Upper and Epipaleolithic in southwestern Syria

scientific article published in July 2012

What do spatial data from Sibhudu tell us about life in the Middle Stone Age?

scientific article published in 2022

What drives cultural change in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal?

scientific article published in 2016

Τesting models for the beginnings of the Aurignacian and the advent of figurative art and music: the radiocarbon chronology of Geißenklösterle

scientific article

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