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This post is a summary of information on the exciting discoveries from the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho, USA. Continue reading “The Cooper’s Ferry site, Idaho, USA; evidence that humans were present in the Americas ~16,000 years ago”
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”
According to current knowledge, figurative art began to develop after Homo sapiens started spreading across Europe. However, the origins of figurative art are until today not completely understood and new information and discoveries might contradict this assumption. Continue reading “The ‘Lion Man’; Upper Palaeolithic Art from Germany”
Klissoura Cave 1 preserves a regionally unique sequence of Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic though Mesolithic cultural layers dating to the Late Pleistocene. Continue reading “Klissoura Cave 1; the earliest Palaeolithic sequence in Southern Greece”
Hearth structures are probably one of the first expressions of space-specific skills. Building a fireplace is a sign of permanence. Such structures are used repeatedly and can survive beyond the limits of the seasonal occupation. Continue reading “Hearth structures in Klissoura cave 1, Greece; the oldest evidence for the emergence of ceramic technology (~32-34 kyr BP)”
Artefacts of apparent Lower or Middle Palaeolithic type were reported in red beds overlying a fossil beach—arguably last Interglacial in age—at Zygi on the south-central coast of Cyprus (Vita-Finzi 1973). Continue reading “Palaeolithic activity on Cyprus and its possible implications”
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