The study of lithic recycling in Paleolithic cultures throughout the Old World is increasingly
becoming a topic of interest for many scholars. Technological analyses, refitting, and spatial …

Dietary reconstructions can offer an improved perspective on human capacities of
adaptation to the environment. New methodological approaches and analytical techniques …

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 …

Qesem Cave is a Middle Pleistocene site in Israel occupied between 420 and 200 ka.
Excavations have revealed a wealth of innovative behaviors most likely practiced by a new …

In line with engineering research focusing on metal tools, techniques to record the attribute
of 'edge sharpness' on stone tools can include both mechanical and micro-geometric …

Stone tools provide a unique window into the mode of adaptation and cognitive abilities of
Lower Paleolithic early humans. The persistently produced large cutting tools …

The technological innovation involving the controlled use of fire represents a decisive
change in human subsistence. Hearths and the spatial distribution patterns associated with …

The purposeful production of small flakes is integral to the lithic variability of many Middle
Pleistocene sites. Inhabitants of the Acheulo-Yabrudian site of Qesem Cave, Israel …

The presence of shaped stone balls at early Paleolithic sites has attracted scholarly attention
since the pioneering work of the Leakeys in Olduvai, Tanzania. Despite the persistent …

The copper-using cultures of North America's Archaic Period (10,000–3000 BP) have long
been an archaeological enigma. For millennia, Middle and Late Archaic hunter-gatherers …