scholarly journals New evidence for the Palaeolithic in Attica, Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Allen Holcomb ◽  
Curtis Runnels ◽  
Duncan Howitt-Marshall ◽  
Evangelos Sachperoglou
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Southwest Asia ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
Geographic Position ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Early Human

Despite Greece’s key geographic position between southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and its potential for documenting hominin dispersals, Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites are rare. This suggests the need for research to identify deposits that may contain Palaeolithic artefacts. Here we describe 165 quartz and quartzite artefacts with Palaeolithic characteristics (based on technical and morphotypological definitions) from a private collection that was made from erosional lag deposits on the southeastern slopes of Mt. Pendeli and the northern edge of the Spata polje (a large karstic depression filled with terra rossas) in northeast Attica. Artefacts of the same type occur in the region of Ano Souli, another karstic depression. These karstic depressions are of interest because they resemble artefact-bearing deposits found at similar features such as Kokkinopilos in Epirus that have provided datable geologic contexts for Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts. Our study suggests that Attica was frequented by hominins in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic and that Pleistocene deposits in karstic depressions in Attica may preserve datable contexts for documenting early human activity. The lithic collection described here provides a glimpse of the potential of the region, and we recommend continued archaeological efforts in Attica to investigate the likelihood for buried Palaeolithic sites.

New Evidence for Significant Use of Bitumen in Middle Palaeolithic Technical Systems at Umm el Tlel (Syria) around 70,000 BP

Paléorient ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Boëda ◽  
S. Bonilauri ◽  
J. Connan ◽  
D. Jarvie ◽  
Norbert Mercier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
New Evidence

The Roots of Human Ecology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Burch ◽  
Gary E. Machlis ◽  
Jo Ellen Force
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Biological Concepts ◽  
The University ◽  
Early Human

This chapter looks at how the roots of human ecology lie primarily in general ecology, sociology, geography, and anthropology, as documented by numerous literature reviews. The idea for the application of general ecological principles to human activity was sparked by sociologists at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. Sociologists Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess drew analogies between human and nonhuman communities, describing society’s symbiotic and competitive relationships as an organic web. Biological concepts such as competition, commensalism, succession, and equilibrium were freely borrowed, mirroring the biologists’ use of social science concepts. Borrowing from contemporary plant ecologists and their focus on plant community zones, early human ecologists moved from classrooms to city streets to map “natural areas” or zones of the urban metropolis.

Did prehistoric landscape management retard the post-glacial spread of woodland in Southwest Asia?

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (294) ◽  
pp. 1002-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Southwest Asia ◽  
Mediterranean Environment ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
Late Season ◽  
Pollen Diagrams ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Trees And Shrubs

Pre-Bronze Age human impacts on the East Mediterranean environment have been hard to detect in pollen diagrams and other off-site contexts. New evidence shows that despite a relatively rapid post-glacial wetting-up of the climate, the re-advance of oak woodland across Southwest Asia was slow. Among the factors likely to have contributed to the apparent disjunction between climate and vegetation is Neolithic landscape management, particularly through regular use of late-season ground fires to encourage grasses at the expense of trees and shrubs.

Dating Persistent Short-Term Human Activity in a Complex Depositional Environment: Late Prehistoric Occupation at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai

Radiocarbon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd Weeks ◽  
Charlotte M Cable ◽  
Steven Karacic ◽  
Kristina A Franke ◽  
David M Price ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
Natural Dune

ABSTRACTThe archaeological site of Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, presents a long sequence of persistent temporary human occupation on the northern edge of the Rub’ al-Khali desert. The site is located in active dune fields, and evidence for human activity is stratified within a deep sequence of natural dune deposits that reflect complex taphonomic processes of deposition, erosion and reworking. This study presents the results of a program of radiocarbon (14C) and thermoluminescence dating on deposits from Saruq al-Hadid, allied with studies of material remains, which are amalgamated with the results of earlier absolute dating studies provide a robust chronology for the use of the site from the Bronze Age to the Islamic period. The results of the dating program allow the various expressions of human activity at the site—ranging from subsistence activities such as hunting and herding, to multi-community ritual activities and large scale metallurgical extraction—to be better situated chronologically, and thus in relation to current debates regarding the development of late prehistoric and early historic societies in southeastern Arabia.

Landscape reconstruction and the relationship between human and environment in Yaowuyao area, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau since 15000 yr BP

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naimeng Zhang ◽  
Qinghai Xu ◽  
Dongju Zhang ◽  
Ulrike Herzschuh ◽  
Zhongwei Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Qinghai Lake ◽  
Lake Basin ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Landscape Reconstruction ◽  
Qinghai Lake Basin ◽  
Early Human

<p>Understanding the paleoenvironment (such as climate and landscape) in the area where the early ancient human appears on the Tibetan Plateau is an interesting topic. Based on the results of pollen data on the Yaowuyao loess section of the Qinghai Lake Basin, we used landscape reconstruction algorithms to reconstruct the changes in vegetation cover for 15,000 years. It is shown that the vegetation in the Yaowuyao area changed from temperate steppe (15-7.5 ka) to forest-steppe (7.5-4 ka). Compared with previous studies on the sediment in Qinghai Lake, our study can better reflect the local environment of the Qinghai Lake basin. Furthermore, based on the paleoclimate change data and archeological data from the surrounding areas, it is noticed that while precipitation increases and trees increase, human activities decrease. This may be caused by the substance and strategies of the ancient human beings that have adapted to the steppe. In addition, our results also show that the intensity of ancient human activity has a negative correlation with plant biodiversity, which may be related to human disturbance to the environment. Our paleoecological and environmental study not only shows the paleoenvironment of the early human activities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau but also revealed possible early human activity signals.</p>

scholarly journals Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (22-24) ◽  
pp. 2996-3016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mishra ◽  
M.J. White ◽  
P. Beaumont ◽  
P. Antoine ◽  
D.R. Bridgland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Fluvial Deposits ◽  
Early Human

scholarly journals Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: Progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group

2017 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 114-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parth R. Chauhan ◽  
David R. Bridgland ◽  
Marie-Hélène Moncel ◽  
Pierre Antoine ◽  
Jean-Jacques Bahain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Fluvial Deposits ◽  
Fluvial Archives ◽  
Early Human

scholarly journals The New evidence for the Palaeolithic on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros), North Eastern Aegean

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Burcin Erdogu ◽  
Nejat Eyüp Yücel ◽  
Kerem Demir
Keyword(s):  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
The North ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
Eastern Aegean ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
North Aegean ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

Eksino, on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros) in the Northeast Aegean, is a new open-air site with evidence of Palaeolithic cultural remains. Stone tools collected by an initial survey have clarified an assessment of the site from the Lower Palaeolithic, and brought to light new evidence from the Middle Palaeolithic as well as transition to the Upper Palaeolithic. Eksino is probably one of the most significant Lower Palaeolithic tool collections in the North Aegean, and finds such as chopper or chopping tools and Acheulean bifacial handaxes from the site show that the North Aegean may be another possible dispersal route from hominids to Europe via the East and Northeast Mediterranean during the Lower Palaeolithic. Middle Palaeolithic finds are frequent in the site and finds resemble the typical Mousterian type which is characterized by discoidal cores, Levallois cores and flakes, scrapers, denticulates, notches and points. Upper Palaeolithic finds are rare in the site, and a bifacial leaf point and large crescent-shaped backed pieces made on blades may reveal the presence of the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition on the island. This new data from Palaeolithic Gökçeada is likely to fill key geographic gaps associated with the initial dispersal of hominins through the northeast Aegean islands.

scholarly journals New woodland beetle species (Coleoptera) in Estonian fauna. 2.

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Ilmar Süda
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Wrong Identification ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
Single Locality

Abstract The article presents an annotated list of 99 new beetle species for Estonia (mainly woodland ones) along with their faunistic data. Most of the material has been collected by the author using trunk window traps within the framework of various research and monitoring projects in 2011–2015. In addition, the work comprises a number of unpublished new species, which were revealed in the material of older collections. These originate mainly from the coleopterologist J. Miländer’s beetle collection preserved at the Estonian University of Life Sciences (finds from the period of 1930–1982) and from the private collection of zoosemiotist A. Turovski. 13 species are new for the fauna of the whole Baltic region. Three species are new for Northern Europe: Triplax carpathica Rtt. (Erotylidae), Phloiotrya subtilis (Rtt.) (Melandryidae) and Carpophilus truncatus Murray (Nitidulidae). Triplax carpathica Rtt. (Erotylidae) and Clypeorhagus clypeatus (Hampe) (Eucnemidae), each known only from a single locality, belong to the European IUCN Red List. Two discovered species, Airaphilus perangustus Lindberg (Silvanidae) and Ochthebius czwalinai Kuwert (Hydraenidae), are known for their very restricted spreading area in Europe. For a large part of the new species (36 out of 99) Estonia lies on the northern edge of their areal. These species have not yet been recorded north of Estonia in Finland, where the beetle fauna is studied better. For two Nitidulidae species, Carpophilus marginellus Motsch. and Glischrochilus quadrisignatus (Say), fast spreading over Estonia was registered in the last five years. Somewhat earlier, a species closely related to the latter, Glischrochilus grandis (Tournier), showed the same tendency of fast spreading in Estonia. Six species, Pityophthorus glabratus Eichhoff (Curculionidae), Dirrhagofarsus attenuatus (Mäklin) (Eucnemidae), Hypebaeus flavipes (F.) (Malachiidae), Dacne notata (Gmelin) (Erotylidae), Aulonothroscus brevicollis (Bonv.) (Throscidae) and Carpophilus dimidiatus (F.) (Nitidulidae) have to be excluded from the list of Estonian fauna due to wrong identification.

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