neolithicspecialized
Our palaeolithic ancestors occupied this area.
The carving is among the most beautiful examples of palaeolithic art.
Scientific analysis of pollen and carbon-14 remains have confirmed a palaeolithic date.

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Examples of palaeolithic

palaeolithic
The first approach is the study of cultural and natural processes responsible for the formation of palaeolithic sites within a specific region.
Both factors also determine the research possibilities for formulating hypotheses on palaeolithic mobility strategies and on the role of these locations in regional settlement systems.
Archaeological studies focusing on these networks have given valuable information on the distances, the direction and the character of mobility of palaeolithic groups.
A good example would be the work on the social dimension of animal bones in palaeolithic as well as historical archaeology.
The palaeolithic record includes truly immense spans of time during which there was no progress whatsoever.
This puts severe limitations on the applicability of the method in regional palaeolithic research.
But more common is its use as a heuristic device in palaeolithic studies on a regional level.
This numeric extension of sites enlarges the representativity of the data and is a prerequisite for the implementation of more landscapeoriented approaches in palaeolithic research.
His research interests in general are palaeolithic archaeology, art and the anthropology of hunters and gatherers.
It is not surprising that palaeolithic archaeology is characterised by a dominance of ecological approaches.
Loessic sediments contain the remains of an upper palaeolithic settlement.
The emphasis in the study of palaeolithic societies is on the affordances and the limitations set by the environment.
The body of the book is concerned with tracing the historical development of all societies from the palaeolithic to the present day.
In an attempt to overcome the discrepancies in the kind of approach used in ethnoarchaeology and palaeolithic archaeology representatives of both disciplines have turned their attention to middle-range research.
As has been demonstrated in this article, data on raw material transport provide valuable information on the distances, the direction and the character of mobility of palaeolithic groups.
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