ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
In this post we present information, sourced from official publications, on the Azilian archaeological industry of the Epipaleolithic period of northern Spain and southern France. Continue reading “The Azilian Epipaleolithic Industry of Spain and France”
The timing of the Middle Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles and the feedback mechanisms between climatic shifts and earth-surface processes are still poorly understood. Continue reading “Neanderthals in Lower Palaeolithic Germany”
Excavations in the summer of 2008 at the sites of Hohle Fels and Vogelherd in Germany produced new evidence for Palaeolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments of three ivory flutes. Continue reading “Aurignacian Humans enjoyed Music; Upper Palaeolithic flutes found in Germany”
In this post we present information on the very interesting issue of the “Levantine Aurignacian”. Continue reading “The “Levantine Aurignacian”; migration of a European population to the Near East during the Upper Palaeolithic”
Sulawesi is the world’s eleventh largest island and the biggest and probably oldest in Wallacea, the zone of oceanic islands between continental Asia and Australia. Continue reading “Cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia ~40 kyr ago”
The possibility that humans reached the Mediterranean islands in the Palaeolithic has been the subject of discussion for decades. Continue reading “Middle Pleistocene sea-crossings in the Aegean”
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