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	PALAEOLITHIC - LoveToKnow Article on PALAEOLITHIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The fully authenticated remains of palaeolithic man are few, and discoveries are confined to certain areas, e.g.
		The first actual find of a palaeolithic implement was that of a rudely fashioned flint in a sandbank at Menchecourt in 1841 by Boucher de Perthes.
		Further discoveries have resulted in the division of the Palaeolithic Age into various epochs or sequences according to the faunas associated with the implements or the localities where found.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PALAEOLITHIC.htm (232 words)

	A. Mifsud, C. Savona-Ventura, S. Mifsud: Palaeolithic Man in the Maltese Islands. ...
		The presence of Palaeolithic man on the Maltese Islands during the late Upper Pleistocene is to be expected when one considers the Islands were connected to the mainland by a well-defined landbridge.
		Palaeolithic man with his hunter-gatherer culture was unlikely to leave a major impact on his environment, in contrast to the later Neolithic man who modified the environment to suit his needs.
		In addition to the Palaeolithic pattern of the Hypogeum bull as characterised by the lack of detail and the materials used (fl manganese oxide), the red ochre used at the hypogeum has been found on scientific testing Russian UNESCO representatives to be identical to the world famous Lascaux Palaeolithic paintings in France.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/3096/palaeol.html (3168 words)

	2 - The Lower, Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic periods
		Since palaeolithic materials are often found in caves or, on occasions, encased in travertine or stalagmitic concretions, this technique has proved extremely useful in Europe and in Asia.
		During the later Middle Palaeolithic period, which lasted from 130,000 to 35,000BP, tool designs changed with the introduction of the small Micoquian handaxes and knives and the classic triangular handaxes/knives which are commonly found in England and elsewhere.
		Increasingly, the Late Upper Palaeolithic period is being being seen as a continuum with the succeeding Mesolithic period and the time of the greatest glaciation as a dividing line between archaeological periods.
	www.btinternet.com /~ron.wilcox/onlinetexts/onlinetexts-chap2.htm (1713 words)

	Ounjougou: Early/Middle Stone Age
		Our objective is the reconstitution of the stratigraphic succession of the different Palaeolithic cultural groups in the area by means of their respective individual technical way of producing lithic artefacts.
		Fieldwork consists of surveys in order to locate Palaeolithic archaeological levels that appear in the numerous natural profiles of the area, of test pits and excavations as well as of the recording of the stratigraphic profiles.
		The chrono-cultural sequence of Ounjougou is exceptional for the Palaeolithic of West Africa as to its chronological extension.
	anthro.unige.ch /ounjougou/esa.html (641 words)

	Palaeolithic Rock Art in the Austrian Alps?
		Pittioni, professor of prehistory and early history at the University of Vienna, strictly rejected Burgstaller’s comparative method as it is basically wrong to claim ancient periods of origin for the Upper Austrian rock art only because of formal conformities" (cited in Burgstaller 1971:97).
		In a paper of 1980 he even went so far to say that the petroglyphs of the Warscheneck Mountains were the origin and starting point of the whole Palaeolithic art of the Alps.
		As not a single example of the engravings in question was found in a really protected location (in caves, under rock shelters, etc.), we cannot seriously discuss a Palaeolithic age as the time of origin of such art.
	www.rupestre.net /tracce/12/palaustr.html (1712 words)

	RunnelsC_28_1-2.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Palaeolithic of the Bosphorus Region, NW Turkey
		Middle Palaeolithic assemblages similar to the typical Balkan Mousterian were found at most sites, and an EUP assemblage similar to the Balkan Aurignacian was found on the Black Sea coast.
		Palaeolithic sites were also not found in Turkish Thrace west of Büyü'k Çekmece, and a palaeoenvironmental barrier, perhaps a channel connecting the Marmara and Black Seas, may have existed before the Bosphorus was opened in the Holocene.
	www.bu.edu /jfa/Abstracts/R/RunnelsC_28_1-2.html (224 words)

	Zinken: [03] Middle Palaeolithic Archives
		Archaeologists also found flints and chippings made by Neanderthals or early modern humans who used the hill's distinctive sandstone outcrop as a resting place in the middle of the last ice age...
		This paper examines claims for Middle and Lower Palaeolithic finds from Scandinavia, within the context of the geological history of the area, where glaciers repeatedly modified Pleistocene landscapes.
		Neanderthal butchery site in Norfolk, UK An extraordinary collection of mammoth remains and flint tools unearthed in a Norfolk quarry may be evidence of the first Neanderthal hunting camp discovered in Britain...
	zinken.typepad.com /palaeo/03_middle_palaeolithic (847 words)

	Zinken: [02] Upper Palaeolithic Archives
		Palaeolithic Glaston, UK During a relatively routine excavation of an early medieval site at Glaston in Rutland, a ULAS team uncovered much earlier remains which will have national, if not international significance.
		A group of bones protruding from what had been taken to be undisturbed sands proved a puzzling discovery for the archaeologists who had been used to seeing the darker, medieval features on the site.
		The last twenty years have seen major growth in research into the Late Palaeolithic in Denmark, which may well be the most significant area of growth in the archaeology of this country.
	zinken.typepad.com /palaeo/02_upper_palaeolithic (573 words)

	TO BE OR NOT TO BE PALAEOLITHIC
		Aborigines was made by beings of the Dreamtime, 'when the rocks were still soft'.
		are rooted in Palaeolithic imagery, not because Europeans are necessarily
		Palaeolithic art to process visual information in a similar way.
	www.cesmap.it /ifrao/discov2.html (994 words)

	Bednarik, Concept-mediated marking in the lower palaeolithic
		Anthropologists are focusing more attention on the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition.
		The Lower Palaeolithic evidence provides observers a study on the cognitive and technological capacities of early hominids.
		It is possible that a more gradual evolution of cognitive abilities evolved which started with the Lower Palaeolithic phase.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /comm/steen/cogweb/ep/Art/Bednarik_95b.html (156 words)

	ANT 402 — Problems in Palaeolithic Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This seminar seeks to understand the variable strategies palaeolithic hominids employed to exploit Pleistocene Eurasian landscapes.
		As Pleistocene Eurasia encompasses environments ranging from glacial tundra, to temperate forests to semi-arid deserts, palaeolithic hominids occupying these environments would have been faced with different opportunities and limitations within a variety of ecological settings.
		It is not intended to summarize the entire archaeological record of Pleistocene Eurasia, but instead to look at selected sites that can inform on landscape exploitation strategies during this period.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Class/ant402/home.html (263 words)

	Palaeolithic Archers?
		Reexamination of human bones from a 13,000-year-old Upper Palaeolithic burial in San Teodoro Cave, Sicily, has led to the startling discovery of a small fragment of flint, probably part of an arrowhead, embedded in the pelvis of what is thought to have been an adult female.
		There is widespread evidence of arrows in Eurasia and North Africa in the following Mesolithic period, including preserved arrow shafts from Stellmoor, Germany, dating to about 8500 B.C., but Palaeolithic evidence has been ambiguous.
		Arrowlike images on animals and humanoid figures in cave paintings could be spears or something else entirely.
	www.archaeology.org /9705/newsbriefs/archers.html (333 words)

	A105 Lecture 14 Modern Human Evolution and Upper Palaeolithic
		Lecture 14, 17 April 2000: Evolution of Modern Humans and the Upper Palaeolithic
		Upper Palaeolithic: specialized blade production (blades are flakes twice as long as they are wide).
		Earliest known is at Chauvet Cave, dated to around 32 kya (the Aurignacian).
	www.indiana.edu /~a105lh/a105_lecture14.html (274 words)

	Anthropology 312/Lower Palaeolithic Prehistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Source of many important Lower Palaeolithic archaeological sites and early hominids.
		Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
		Many papers on the beginnings of symbolic behaviour and the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~pwilloug/anthro312.htm (1072 words)

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