The timing and location of the emergence of our species and of associated behavioural
changes are crucial for our understanding of human evolution. The earliest fossil attributed …

Recent chronological studies of the Sima de los Huesos (SH) hominin fossil site, Atapuerca,
Spain, have established a close minimum age of at least 430 ka for sedimentary material …

Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at
the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior …

The nature of the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition has been one of the most debated
questions in early Prehistory since the mid-20th century. The root of these debates lies …

We present evidence of Middle Pleistocene activity in the central Aegean Basin at the chert
extraction and reduction complex of Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Luminescence dating places …

L'idée que tous les sites archéologiques, et notamment paléolithiques, ont subi à des
degrés divers des transformations par les processus naturels après leur abandon par …

The study of the lithic assemblages of two French sites, the Bau de l'Aubesier and Payre,
contributes new knowledge of the earliest Neanderthal techno-cultural variability. In this …

Since 2013, new excavations have focused on the northern part of the Toca da Janela da
Barra do Antonião (TJBA-N) rockshelter, which is located on the edge of the Serra da …

The beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe is traditionally associated with
the emergence of new, more complex and standardised debitage technologies, such as …

The end of the Middle Pleistocene is an interesting period for investigating the
transformation of Neandertal behavior from the early Middle Paleolithic to the late Middle …