On the issues related to the discoid cores

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Youcheng Chen ◽  
Tongli Qu
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Paleolithic ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The West ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Old World ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe discoid core and the Levallois core are important symbols of the Middle Paleolithic Age in the west of the Old World. The two types of artifacts show not only technical relationships but also differences. The discoid core can be classified into two sub-types, namely the unifacial and the bifacial classes. In China, discoid cores may have appeared in the upper Middle Pleistocene, and prevailed in the lower and middle Upper Pleistocene, which corresponded to the middle Paleolithic Age in Europe and to the Middle Stone Age in Africa. The discovery and study of discoid cores provide significant insight into the culture of the Middle Paleolithic Age in China.

Atapuerca Neanderthal landscape at Fuente Mudarra site in Burgos, Spain, during Marine Isotope Stages 5–3

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Marta Santamaría ◽  
Marta Navazo ◽  
Alfonso Benito-Calvo ◽  
Rodrigo Alonso ◽  
Gloria I. López ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Gentle Slope ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Fuente Mudarra is on a gentle slope on the left bank of the Pico River, near Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain. A 12−m2 test pit was dug at this large open-air site between 2012 and 2017. Several upper Pleistocene archaeological levels were documented. Results from Fuente Mudarra confirm that Neanderthal groups, little represented at cave sites, occupied Sierra de Atapuerca from the end of the middle Pleistocene and during the upper Pleistocene. The site also provides insight into Neanderthal spatial organization in the Atapuerca area and whether they used the caves in an occasional, non-habitual way like the open-air sites.

Human Skeletal Remains from the Southern Cape Province and Their Bearing on the Stone Age Prehistory of South Africa

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Rightmire
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
River Mouth ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Skeletal Samples ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Cave Sediment

Substantial numbers of human skeletons have been recovered from caves and shelters of the southern Cape Province, South Africa, and these constitute a valuable source of information about evolutionary change and population movement during Upper Pleistocene and Holocene times. A few fragments from Klasies River Mouth and Die Kelders are firmly associated with Middle Stone Age cultural assemblages, but most of the material is probably linked with the Later Stone Age Albany and Wilton industries. Unfortunately the largest collections of relatively well-preserved remains have come from earlier excavations (Matjes River Shelter, Oakhurst), and the stratigraphic provenance of these burials is frequently in doubt. Other skeletal samples are small, and paleodemographic approaches are diffcult to apply. However, Bushman- or Hottentot-like individuals can certainly be identified, and this is important to the questions of Bushman antiquity or origins. Other problems concerning early Cape populations can also be examined, and this work on the human skeletons should complement ongoing cave sediment and other geological studies, faunal and plant analyses, and archaeological investigations of associated cultural remains.

Current research on the settlement dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age

2017 ◽  
Vol 435 ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
M. Gema Chacón ◽  
Knut Bretzke ◽  
Florent Rivals ◽  
Nicholas J. Conard
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Middle Paleolithic ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Settlement Dynamics

Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers of Nubia

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-100
Author(s):  
Mirosław Masojć
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Lower Paleolithic ◽  
Upper Egypt

The chapter is devoted to the earliest human settlement in Nubia, which took place in the Pleistocene, with numerous references to neighboring areas, especially Upper Egypt. Paleolithic groups of humans probably appeared in Nubia in the Early Pleistocene, but well-documented sites—connected with Lower Paleolithic-Acheulean complex industries—are dated only to Middle Pleistocene (MIS 9-7). Some of the oldest Middle Stone Age (MSA) assemblages in Africa were discovered in Nubia (ca. 220 ka, MIS 7). Numerous MSA sites (ca. 220–40 ka, MIS 7-3) with predominating Levallois technology are situated within the Nile valley and the neighboring deserts, mainly in oases. The onset of Upper Paleolithic (ca. 40–20 ka, MIS 3-2) blade technology was recorded together with the oldest mining. Late Paleolithic groups of humans (20–11 ka, MIS 2), characterized by considerable diversity in the hyper-arid period, lived only in the Nile valley. Local examples of rock paintings come from that period. Pleistocene human remains from Nubia are extremely rare; they all represent H. sapiens. Cemeteries with numerous burials, some of which display evidence of violence, were also discovered in this area.

On Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age Hominid Taxonomy

1990 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milford H. Wolpoff ◽  
Rachel Caspari
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Middle Paleolithic ◽  
Stone Age
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