Cal Sitjo is a new archaeological sequence located in chert-rich region of the NE Iberian Peninsula, town Sant Martí de Tous (Anoia, Barcelona). The area has undergone significant anthropisation and several sites (e.g., Vilars Tous), quarries workshops for exploitation chert La Guinardera) have been documented, corresponding to different periods. abundance made this an almost obligatory passage...

This paper reports on an Aboriginal site complex, incorporating hut structures, ceremonial stone arrangements, extensive surface artefact assemblage of lithics and mussel shell, a silcrete quarry, located along Hilary Creek, tributary the Georgina River in western Queensland, Australia. At least two phases occupation are indicated. The most recent huts have their collapsed organic superstructur...

Volcanic obsidian was widely used in ancient times for stone tools, with its highly glassy nature making it sharper than other lithics cutting purposes. In Europe and the Mediterranean, there are just several island sources, a few one inland region, all having been since beginning of Neolithic period, ca. 6000 BCE. Maritime transport necessary access to Italian Greek distribution artifacts over...

Ha’il region in northwest Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of oases, flat plains, Paleo-lakes, and lava fields, which are some main landscape characteristics Palaeolithic sites have been found region. It located on one routes early hominin dispersal across Arabia. The ongoing archaeological research made Paleodeserts Disperse projects recorded several Acheulean Middle such localiti...

The region of western Georgia (Imereti) has been a major geographic corridor for human migrations during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic (MP/UP). Knowledge of the MP and UP in this region, however, stems mostly from a small number of recent excavations at the sites of Ortvale Klde, Dzudzuana, Bondi, and Kotias Klde. These provide an absolute chronology for the Late MP and MP-UP transition, bu...

The archaeological sites near Monte Alegre, along Brazil's lower Amazon River, provide new information on the little-known activities and symbolism of South American Paleoindians toward the end of the Ice Age. While paleoindian sites like Monte Verde in Chile, or Guitarrero Cave in Peru, are located near the pacific coast, Monte Alegre lies much further inland, 680 km upriver from the mouth of ...

Based on the morphology of two deciduous molars and radiocarbon ages from layers D and E of the Grotta del Cavallo (Lecce, Italy), assigned to the Uluzzian, it has been proposed that modern humans were the makers of this Early Upper Paleolithic culture and that this finding considerably weakens the case for an independent emergence of symbolism among western European Neandertals. Reappraisal of...

The territory of present day Armenia is a geographic contact zone between the Near East and the northern Caucasus. Armenian Middle and Upper Paleolithic records are both few and patchy as a result of the historical paucity of systematic archaeological research in the country. Consequently, it is currently difficult to correlate the Armenian Middle and Upper Paleolithic records with those from o...

Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200 and 100ka, and recent evidence suggests that complex cognition may have appeared between ~164 and 75ka. This evidence directs our focus to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6, when from 195-123ka the world was in a fluctuating but predominantly glacial stage, when much of Africa was cooler and drier, and when dated ...

for some 3 million years, the archaeological record is characterized by stone tools undergoing incremental changes. then around 40,000 years ago, the monotony of lithics is terminated by a profusion of visual representations, generally considered to be the world’s first objets d’art. this collection include a series of portable objects, especially figurines and, later on, the famous cave painti...