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Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (312) ◽  
pp. 501-502
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
La Tène ◽  
La Tene ◽  
Península Ibérica

scholarly journals A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa: The Question of the Fauresmith

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy I. R. Herries
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Cutting Tools ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Terminal Phase ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Firm Evidence

An understanding of the age of the Acheulian and the transition to the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa has been hampered by a lack of reliable dates for key sequences in the region. A number of researchers have hypothesised that the Acheulian first occurred simultaneously in southern and eastern Africa at around 1.7-1.6 Ma. A chronological evaluation of the southern African sites suggests that there is currently little firm evidence for the Acheulian occurring before 1.4 Ma in southern Africa. Many researchers have also suggested the occurrence of a transitional industry, the Fauresmith, covering the transition from the Early to Middle Stone Age, but again, the Fauresmith has been poorly defined, documented, and dated. Despite the occurrence of large cutting tools in these Fauresmith assemblages, they appear to include all the technological components characteristic of the MSA. New data from stratified Fauresmith bearing sites in southern Africa suggest this transitional industry maybe as old as 511–435 ka and should represent the beginning of the MSA as a broad entity rather than the terminal phase of the Acheulian. The MSA in this form is a technology associated with archaic H. sapiens and early modern humans in Africa with a trend of greater complexity through time.

The emergence of bone-working and ornamental art in the Caucasian Upper Palaeolithic

Antiquity ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (324) ◽  
pp. 299-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liubov V. Golovanova ◽  
Vladimir B. Doronichev ◽  
Naomi E. Cleghorn
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New Work ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Ornamental Art

New work from the Caucasus is revolutionising the timing and character of the shift from Neanderthals to early Modern humans in Eurasia. Here the authors reveal a powerful signal of that change from excavations at Mezmaiskaya: the abrupt appearance of a well-formed bone industry and ornaments.

scholarly journals Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

Science ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 325 (5942) ◽  
pp. 859-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Brown ◽  
C. W. Marean ◽  
A. I. R. Herries ◽  
Z. Jacobs ◽  
C. Tribolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans

Prehistoric Settlement at Virje–Volarski Breg/Sušine

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-145
Author(s):  
Marko Dizdar ◽  
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Alpine Region ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
La Tène ◽  
Danube Region ◽  
La Tene ◽  
Rural Character ◽  
The One

Several years of excavations at the site of Virje–Volarski Breg/Sušine uncovered the remains of a settlement from the Late Bronze and Late Iron Ages. The finds of a bronze pin and potsherds from the Late Bronze Age enabled the dating of the settlement to the early and late phases of the Urnfield culture, with the settlement at Volarski Breg being older than the one at Sušine. The excavations revealed parts of La Tène settlement infrastructure, which indicated that it was a prominent lowland settlement from the Middle and Late La Tène. They included the exceptional discovery of a pit with the remains of a loom. Both for the organization of the La Tène culture settlement and for its pottery finds, there are parallels in the known settlements from the middle Drava valley and the neighbouring areas of north-eastern Slovenia and south-western Hungary. These settlements are considered to have a rural character and to be the result of the life needs of small agricultural communities integrated in the landscape. The explored parts of the infrastructure of these settlements show that they were organized around single households. The intensive habitation of the middle Drava valley in the Late Bronze and Late Iron Ages is not at all surprising, since the area was crossed by an important communication route between the south-eastern Alpine region and the Danube region.

Dentoalveolar paleopathology of the early modern humans from Zhirendong, South China

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Lacy ◽  
Xiu-Jie Wu ◽  
Chang-Zu Jin ◽  
Da-Gong Qin ◽  
Yan-Jun Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
South China ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans

The Eight Animals in Shakespeare; or, Before the Human

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Title I ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Single Digit ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Town

The poverty of the single-digit sum in my title, I trust, raises a brow. After all, the ubiquity of those we conventionally shepherd into the enclosure of the term animals stands out as a feature of both Shakespearean material and early modern texts generally. The animal footprints in this archive result from the frequency with which early moderns encountered living and butchered animals in their daily routines. Hardly an urban, rural, or domestic scene was painted without them. For illustration, Jan van der Heyden's cityscape of Amsterdam's main public square dramatizes the civic visibility of dogs and horses (alongside the town hall and the New Church) and muddies any distinction between beasts of burden and creatures of leisure—especially beneath that vast early modern sky (see next page). In a prescient intimation of modernity, Thomas More's Utopia imagined a noncitizen, butchering class performing its labors, deemed too brutal for citizens to witness, out of sight (75). Early modern humans had more contact with more animals than most of us now do. For a species with weak ears and a terrible nose, out of sight is out of mind.

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