Upper Pleistocene loess-palaeosol records from Northern France in the European context: Environmental background and dating of the Middle Palaeolithic

2016 ◽  
Vol 411 ◽  
pp. 4-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Antoine ◽  
Sylvie coutard ◽  
Gilles Guerin ◽  
Laurent Deschodt ◽  
Emilie Goval ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
European Context ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Environmental Background

Preliminary Report on Stone Age Reconnaissance in north-eastern Iran

1964 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 382-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. M. McBurney
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Climatic Data ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Eastern Iran ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The One

The following is a preliminary report on the results achieved during approximately six weeks' archaeological fieldwork in north-eastern Iran in July and August 1963. The primary objective was to explore the area for traces of the local Upper Pleistocene cultural sequence, and in particular to establish if possible the date and character of the local Upper Palaeolithic. In the event no traces of Upper Palaeolithic were obtained. However, a start was made towards defining the problem by the discovery of two well-stratified deposits, the one yielding a Middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) industry with distinctive regional affinities, and the other an early Post-glacial Mesolithic industry. Reliable samples were obtained for defining the statistical properties of both, together with carbon samples, traces of vertebrate fauna, and some other climatic data.Representative collections were lodged with the Musée Iran Bastan at Teheran; and the expedition's share is to be offered in part to the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge and in part to the British Museum. The expedition was financed mainly by a grant from the British Academy, supplemented by further grants from the Crowther-Beynon Fund and the British Museum.

The last 750 ka in loess–palaeosol sequences from northern France: environmental background and dating of the western European Palaeolithic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Antoine ◽  
Sylvie Coutard ◽  
Jean‐Jacques Bahain ◽  
Jean‐Luc Locht ◽  
David Hérisson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern France ◽  
Environmental Background ◽  
Western European

New Evidence for the Expansion of an Upper Pleistocene Population out of East Africa, from the Site of Station One, Northern Sudan

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey I. Rose
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
East African ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Chipped Stone

Evidence for a hunter-gatherer range-expansion is indicated by the site of Station One in the northern Sudan, a surface scatter of chipped stone debris systematically collected almost 40 years ago, though not studied until present. Based on technological and typological correlates in East Africa, the predominant use of quartz pebbles for raw material, and the production of small bifacial tools, the site can be classified as Middle Stone Age. While often appearing in East African assemblages, quartz was rarely used in Nubia, where ferrocrete sandstone and Nile pebble were predominantly used by all other Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age populations. Additionally, façonnage reduction is characteristic of lithic technology in East Africa in the late Middle Stone Age, while Middle Palaeolithic industries in the Nile Valley display only core reduction. It is proposed this assemblage represents a range-expansion of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers from East Africa during an Upper Pleistocene pluvial.

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