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One of the great ladies of Upper #Palaeolithic #research has passed. God speed, Olga Soffer! https://share.google/CVQ9QPKhAduZM8aza

Palaeolithic engraving.
Man/bear, and you can definitely tell it's a man! From the Le Mas-d'Azil cave in the French Pyrenees.
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#Archaeolgy
#Palaeolithic

Why the Japanese Palaeolithic Deserves a Central Place in the Story of Human Expansion Across Asia

https://1ban.news/japanese-palaeolithic-western-narratives/
#1ban #japanese #palaeolithic #western #narratives #science

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#RyukyuLT
the programme is 1. general introduction, 2. #palaeolithic in #amami, 3. palaeolithic in the futenma cave, 4. palaeolithic in sakitari cave, 5. palaeolithic in tsuzupisuki abu cave (#miyako), 6. genetic studies in #Ryukyu, 7. debate

i'll be live-tooting in english the annual okinawan archaeological society meeting starting at 13:00 (in 30 minutes)
hashtag will be as usual #RyukyuLT for Ryukyu Live-Tooting
mute it if you do not want to hear about the period between the end of the #palaeolithic and the apparition of #pottery in #Ryukyu, as it is the subject of the conf this year 😁
#okinawa #archaeology

Ancient human DNA found in Stone Age cave art - New Scientist podcast [audio 15m18s] #RockArt #ParietalArt #CaveArt #palaeolithic https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/ancient-human-dna-found-in-stone-age-cave-art-for-first-time/

New book out honouring Berit Valentin Eriksen whose #research focuses on everything #flintknapping from Late #Palaeolithic to #BronzeAge, from preparing the material by tempering to the social dimensions of one of the earliest handcrafts, and who is a strong #mentor for young, especially #female #archaeologists:
Between Thy and Tübingen https://share.google/bUZE8TWH1wOGjSbM8

@Bad @ChrisMayLA6 #Economic #violence is hardly a new #phenomenon, though, is it? It has been with us for a very long time. There are those who argue that #Palaeolithic & #Mesolithic #societies were #egalitarian & #pacific - practically #Utopian, indeed (I very much doubt the truth of this thesis) - but #humans have definitely organised themselves in increasingly #hierarchic & #inegalitarian societies from the #Neolithic onwards.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/02/journey-into-spain-palaeolithic-cave-paintings-altamira. Who still thinks of the people of the #Palaeolithic as "primitive"? If they could - & did - produce #art like this, there was absolutely nothing "primitive" about them!

‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings.

For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty.

One of the world’s leading experts took me up close.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260602-they-take-you-out-of-life-out-of-time-a-journey-into-spains-astonishing-cave-paintings?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#CavePaintings #Spain #Archaeology #Art #Palaeontology #Science #History #Palaeolithic #Longread

Eleven parallel lines in red haematite on a Welsh cave wall, dismissed as a natural seep since 1928, have now been dated to ~17,100 years old. Bacon Hole is Britain’s oldest cave art. #Palaeolithic #CaveArt #Archaeometry https://www.anthropology.net/p/eleven-lines-in-a-welsh-cave

What a single piece of chert from the Landes region of France tells us about mobility networks across the Pyrenees during the Last Glacial Maximum. New research from Cova Gran de Santa Linya, Lleida. #Palaeolithic #UpperPalaeolithic #LithicAnalysis https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-rock-remembers-chert-procurement

🔥New paper out now🔥
in collaboration with a colleague from MONREPOS.
Congratulations!
#palaeolithic #leizarchaeology #paleomonrepos #archaeology #paleolithic #archeology
Read now 👇
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-026-02447-z

Cave Art : origins of symbolic–religious interpretation of palaeolithic art [2010 pdf 14pp] #parietalArt #RockArt #palaeolithic https://www.academia.edu/333471/CAVE_ART_AND_THE_THEORY_OF_ART_THE_ORIGINS_OF_THE_RELIGIOUS_INTERPRETATION_OF_PALAEOLITHIC_GRAPHIC_EXPRESSION

A valley in northern Israel has produced 10 handaxes deliberately shaped around fossils and geodes, unprecedented for a single Acheulean site. What did early humans see in strange stone? #Palaeolithic #Acheulean #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/shaped-around-the-fossil-acheulean

Our DiPA (Dialogues in Pleistocene Archaeology) will continue on March 18th, at 10.30.

Josh London (SHEP) will talk about Upper Paleolithic craft traditions and regional exchange networks.

Zoom registration possible!

#paleomonrepos #archaeology #palaeolithic #paleolithic #leizarchaeology

🔥New paper out now in Science Advances🔥

News from the straight-tusked elephants from Neumark-Nord!

An international team has uncovered spectacular insights into life histories of some elephants by analysing their tooth enamel.

The study is the latest in a series of ongoing scientific analyses of artefacts from the former Neumark-Nord opencast lignite mine.

Read now 👇
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz0114

#palaeolithic #paleolithic #archaeology #Neanderthals #elephants

Young men and #bears were a dangerous combination in the Late #Weichselian western #Alps for which the Late #Palaeolithic Grotte du Bichon from appr. 14,000 years ago was a master example (Morel 1993, Archäologie der Schweiz 16, 110-117. https://share.google/tkLnhernhStkVr3an ). Now another example from c. 27,000 years Arene Candide is added by new #anthropological analyses:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-foraging-teenager-was-mauled-by-a-bear-27-000-years-ago-skeleton-shows/

Reevaluating Hand Stencil Phenomena in Cave Art: Characterization of Symbolic Patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe [pdf 21pp] #CaveArt #ParietalArt #RockArt #palaeolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/reevaluating-hand-stencil-phenomena-in-cave-art-a-step-forward-towards-the-characterization-of-symbolic-patterns-during-the-upper-palaeolithic-in-europe/E867DBB1487323B415E401E3CCEF2042

Reevaluating Hand Stencil Phenomena in Cave Art: A Step Forward towards the Characterization of Symbolic Patterns during the Upper #Palaeolithic in Europe.
Palaeolithic art offers a unique window into understanding prehistoric societies. Thus, the iconography, techniques and stylistic features of the Upper Palaeolithic form the basis of research and are potentially valuable sources of information about cultural and knowledge exchange networks.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/reevaluating-hand-stencil-phenomena-in-cave-art-a-step-forward-towards-the-characterization-of-symbolic-patterns-during-the-upper-palaeolithic-in-europe/E867DBB1487323B415E401E3CCEF2042 #globalmuseum #caveart

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🔥New paper out now in Quaternary Science Reviews🔥
Two of our MONREPOS researchers were involved in a study that provided high-resolution climate data from the Eemian interglacial period from Neumark-Nord 2, Germany.
@paleomonrepos
#Archaeology #Research #Paleolithic #Palaeolithic #Archeology #Neanderthal #Eemian
Read now 👇
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912500544X?via%3Dihub

Stone Tip Cross-Sectional Geometry Contributes to Thrusting Spear Performance [pdf 20pp] #SpearPoints #ProjectilePoints #palaeolithic #HunterForagers #HunterGatherers @Paleoanth_Journ https://doi.org/10.48738/2025.iss2.3863

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#Blue Late #Palaeolithic #Germany

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/earliest-evidence-of-blue-pigment-use-in-europe/C8817D4F033F8195955F936532553FB8