Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Geis, Lila"

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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

Geis, Lila; d'Errico, Francesco; Jordan, Fiona; Brenet, Michel; Queffelec, Alain (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)

Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this ...
Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda R.; Wadley, Lyn; Geis, Lila; Queffelec, Alain; Banks, William E.; Doyon, Luc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)

Fully shaped, morphologically standardized bone tools are generally considered reliable indicators of the emergence of modern behavior. We report the discovery of 23 double-beveled bone tools from ~ 80,000–60,000-year-old ...