Blar i Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR på tidsskrift "Scientific Reports"

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    • A 38,000-year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France 

      d'Errico, Francesco; David, Serge; Coqueugniot, Hélène; Meister, Christian; Dutkiewicz, Ewa; Pigeaud, Romain; Sitzia, Luca; Cailhol, Didier; Bosq, Mathieu; Griggo, Christophe; Affolter, Jehanne; Queffelec, Alain; Doyon, Luc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The earliest European carvings, made of mammoth ivory, depict animals, humans, and anthropomorphs. They are found at Early Aurignacian sites of the Swabian Jura in Germany. Despite the wide geographical spread of the ...

    • The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia 

      Scerri, Eleanor M. L.; Frouin, Marine; Breeze, Paul S.; Armitage, Simon James; Candy, Ian; Groucutt, Huw S.; Drake, Nick; Parton, Ash; White, Tom S.; Alsharekh, Abdullah; Petraglia, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Arabian Peninsula is a critical geographic landmass situated between Africa and the rest of Eurasia. Climatic shifts across the Pleistocene periodically produced wetter conditions in Arabia, dramatically altering the ...

    • First identification of an evolving Middle Stone Age ochre culture at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia 

      Rosso, Daniela Eugenia; Regert, Martine; d'Errico, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The use of mineral pigments, in particular iron-rich rocks, holds significant importance in understanding the emergence and evolution of human cultures. However, sites that have yielded a number of pieces large enough to ...

    • An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe 

      Hodgkins, Jamie; Orr, Caley M.; Gravel-Miguel, Claudine; Riel-Salvatore, Julien; Miller, Christopher; Bondioli, Luca; Nava, Alessia; Lugli, Federico; Talamo, Sahra; Hajdinjak, Mateja; Cristiani, Emanuela; Romandini, Matteo; Meyer, Dominique; Drohobytsky, Danylo; Kuester, Falko; Pothier-Bouchard, Geneviève; Buckley, Mike; Mancini, Lucia; Baruffaldi, Fabio; Silvestrini, Sara; Arrighi, Simona; Keller, Hannah M.; Griggs, Rocío Belén; Peresani, Marco; Strait, David S.; Benazzi, Stefano; Negrino, Fabio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The evolution and development of human mortuary behaviors is of enormous cultural significance. Here we report a richly-decorated young infant burial (AVH-1) from Arma Veirana (Liguria, northwestern Italy) that is directly ...

    • A millennium of trophic stability inAtlantic cod (Gadus morhua): transition to a lower and converging trophic niche in modern times 

      Ólafsdóttir, Guðbjörg Ásta; Edvardsson, Ragnar; Timsic, Sandra; Harrison, Ramona; Patterson, William P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Stable isotope analyses of zooarchaeological material can be used to examine ecological variability in exploited species at centennial to millennial scales. Climate change is a notable driver of marine ecosystem change, ...

    • Multiple phases of human occupation in Southeast Arabia between 210,000 and 120,000 years ago 

      Bretzke, K.; Preusser, F.; Jasim, S.; Miller, Christopher; Preston, G.; Raith, K.; Underdown, S.J.; Parton, A.; Parker, A.G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Changing climatic conditions are thought to be a major control of human presence in Arabia during the Paleolithic. Whilst the Pleistocene archaeological record shows that periods of increased monsoon rainfall attracted ...

    • 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 ...