MONREPOSApr 29
🔥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
Examining indicators of hunter-gatherer mobility in arid environments: The example of the final Middle Paleolithic site of Besor 37 (Northern Negev, Israel) - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Besor 37 is an open-air site in the northwestern Negev Desert (Israel). Excavations at the site in 2020 uncovered a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic assemb

SpringerLink
grateful wolfApr 28
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
CAVE ART AND THE THEORY OF ART: THE ORIGINS OF THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF PALAEOLITHIC GRAPHIC EXPRESSION

This paper explores the origins of the symbolic–religious interpretation of Palaeolithic art. We analyse the relationship between the explanations that were given of the ‘primitive’ mentality in the second half of the nineteenth century and the birth

Anthropology.netMar 24
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
Shaped Around the Fossil: Acheulean Handaxes and the Strange Stones of Sakhnin Valley

A new site in northern Israel reveals Lower Palaeolithic handaxes crafted around fossils—a find that reopens the debate over how early humans perceived stone.

Anthropology.net
MONREPOSMar 17

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

JBinnacleMar 16
Overlooking the valley called Valle de los Milagros from the Casares archaeological area. Riba de Saelices, Spain 🇪🇸. 16th September 2023.

https://wp.me/p2yJaA-2Gk

#Spain #España #Espana #RibaDeSaelices
#archaeology #ruins #travel #travelling #travel #travelphotography #CuevaDeLosCasares #ConjuntoDeLosCasares #palaeolithic #MiddleAges #hiking #nature #ValleDeLosMilagros
#travel #travelphotography #traveling #travelling #trip #tourism
#JBinnacle
JBinnacleMar 16
Archeological Site - Conjunto de Los Casares. It includes the ruins of a Hispanic-Muslim village, a watch tower, and a cave with Palaeolithic carvings. Riba de Saelices, Spain 🇪🇸. 16th September 2023.

https://wp.me/p2yJaA-2Gk

#Spain #España #Espana #RibaDeSaelices
#archaeology #ruins #travel #travelling #travel #travelphotography #CuevaDeLosCasares #ConjuntoDeLosCasares #palaeolithic #MiddleAges
#travel #travelphotography #traveling #travelling #trip #tourism
#JBinnacle
MONREPOSMar 16

🔥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

EAZMar 3
📚🗂️⏳#EAZArchive: EAZ 17 (1) is now available in our digital archive
Published in 1976, this issue covers discussions on the evolution of early Homo, hunting behaviours in the Lower Palaeolithic period and research on the Vedic Soma sacrifice, as well as many other topics.
Read here: https://www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/eaz/issue/view/114
#archaeology #ethnography #anthropology #research #StoneAge #Palaeolithic #eaz
Dr. Sonja B. GrimmFeb 16
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/
grateful wolfFeb 15
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 | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core

Reevaluating Hand Stencil Phenomena in Cave Art: A Step Forward towards the Characterization of Symbolic Patterns during the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe

Cambridge Core