Transitions or turnovers? Climatically-forced extinctions of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the east Mediterranean Levant

JJ Shea - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The East Mediterranean Levant is a focal point for debate about evolutionary continuity
among Late Pleistocene hominin populations. Changes in the Levantine Middle and Upper …

Early and Middle Pleistocene faunal and hominins dispersals through Southwestern Asia

O Bar-Yosef, M Belmaker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This review summarizes the paleoecology of the Early and Middle Pleistocene of
southwestern Asia, based on both flora and fauna, retrieved from a series of 'windows' …

'Fire at will': The emergence of habitual fire use 350,000 years ago

R Shimelmitz, SL Kuhn, AJ Jelinek, A Ronen… - Journal of Human …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The use of fire is central to human survival and to the processes of becoming human. The
earliest evidence for hominin use of fire dates to more than a million years ago. However …

Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus

DS Adler, KN Wilkinson, S Blockley, DF Mark… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~ 400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by
technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout …

[کتاب][B] Neanderthals and modern humans: an ecological and evolutionary perspective

C Finlayson - 2004‏ - books.google.com
Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between
climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the …

The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict

OY Martin, DJ Hosken - Nature, 2003‏ - nature.com
Classical population-genetics theory suggests that reproductive isolation will evolve fastest
in small isolated populations. In contrast, recent theory suggests that divergence should …

New radiometric ages for the Fauresmith industry from Kathu Pan, southern Africa: implications for the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition

N Porat, M Chazan, R Grün, M Aubert… - Journal of …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The Fauresmith lithic industry of South Africa has been described as transitional between
the Earlier and Middle Stone Age. However, radiometric ages for this industry are …

Why Levallois? A morphometric comparison of experimental 'preferential'Levallois flakes versus debitage flakes

MI Eren, SJ Lycett - PLoS one, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Middle Palaeolithic stone artefacts referred to as 'Levallois' have caused
considerable debate regarding issues of technological predetermination, cognition and …

Reassessment of TL age estimates of burnt flints from the Paleolithic site of Tabun Cave, Israel

N Mercier, H Valladas - Journal of Human Evolution, 2003‏ - Elsevier
The stratigraphy of Tabun Cave (Mt. Carmel), which comprises one of the longest
sequences of Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Near East, is widely used as a reference …

The middle paleolithic of the east Mediterranean Levant

JJ Shea - Journal of World Prehistory, 2003‏ - Springer
This paper reviews recent developments in geochronology, archaeology, and behavioral
interpretations of the Middle Paleolithic Period (ca. 47–250 Kyr) in the East Mediterranean …