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' …

Continual fire-making by hominins at Gesher Benot Ya 'aqov, Israel

N Alperson-Afil - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2008‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents the culmination of an extensive study of fire-use at the Early and early
Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya 'aqov. Using software available in the GIS …

[کتاب][B] The evolved apprentice

K Sterelny - 2012‏ - books.google.com
" Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our
great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive …

On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

W Roebroeks, P Villa - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011‏ - pnas.org
The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue, with claims for regular fire
use by early hominins in Africa at∼ 1.6 million y ago. These claims are not uncontested, but …

Evidence for the repeated use of a central hearth at Middle Pleistocene (300 ky ago) Qesem Cave, Israel

R Shahack-Gross, F Berna, P Karkanas… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
A major debate in prehistory revolves around the time and place of the earliest habitual use
of fire and the hominin species responsible for it. Here we present a newly discovered …

Luminescence dating: basics, methods and applications

F Preusser, D Degering, M Fuchs… - E&G Quaternary …, 2008‏ - egqsj.copernicus.org
Luminescence dating is a tool frequently used for age determination of Quaternary materials
such as archaeological artefacts, volcanic deposits and a variety of sediments from different …

How heat alters underlying deposits and implications for archaeological fire features: a controlled experiment

V Aldeias, HL Dibble, D Sandgathe, P Goldberg… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
While it is true that the use of fire is undoubtedly an important behavioral trait, fire can also
leave important traces in archaeological deposits, including altering previously deposited …

[کتاب][B] Perishable material culture in prehistory: investigating the missing majority

LM Hurcombe - 2014‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad
range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record …

Language, gesture, skill: the co-evolutionary foundations of language

K Sterelny - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper defends a gestural origins hypothesis about the evolution of enhanced
communication and language in the hominin lineage. The paper shows that we can develop …

Hominin fire use in the Okote member at Koobi Fora, Kenya: New evidence for the old debate

S Hlubik, R Cutts, DR Braun, F Berna, CS Feibel… - Journal of Human …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Hominin fire use in the early Pleistocene has been debated since the early 1970s when
consolidated reddened sediment patches were identified at FxJj20 East and Main, Koobi …