Palaeoproteomics is an emerging neologism used to describe the application of mass
spectrometry-based approaches to the study of ancient proteomes. As with palaeogenomics …

This paper offers a broad and critical overview of current discussions on the potential uses
and the characterization of pigments in prehistory, with a special focus on prehistoric rock …

Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Over the last two decades, red ochre has played a pivotal role in discussions about the
cognitive and cultural evolution of early modern humans during the African Middle Stone …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

We report the discovery of a 50,000-y-old birch tar-hafted flint tool found off the present-day
coastline of The Netherlands. The production of adhesives and multicomponent tools is …

Studying the earliest archaeological adhesives has implications for our understanding of
human cognition. In southern Africa, the oldest adhesives were made by Homo sapiens in …

An adhesive is any substance that bonds different materials together. This broad definition
includes materials used in everything from hafted stone tools to monumental architecture. In …

Hafting of stone tools was an important advance in the technology of the Paleolithic.
Evidence of hafting in the Middle Paleolithic is growing and is not limited to points hafted on …

Archaeological indicators of cognitively modern behaviour become increasingly prevalent
during the African Middle Stone Age (MSA). Although the exploitation of ochre is viewed as …