Lower Paleolithic Shaped Stone Balls—What Is Next? Some Cultural–Cognitive Questions

Autor: Ella Assaf, Javier Baena Preysler, Emiliano Bruner

Publikováno v: Quaternary, Vol 6, Iss 4, p 51 (2023)

Shaped stone balls (SSBs) were an integral part of human culture across the Old World for nearly 2 million years. They are one of the oldest implements made and used by humans. In this significant era, which was characterised by biological and cultur

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Paleolithic aesthetics: Collecting colorful flint pebbles at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel

Autor: Ella Assaf

Publikováno v: Journal of Lithic Studies, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2018)

This paper sheds light on the presence and significance of unusually small, colorful, unmodified, flint pebbles unearthed at Qesem Cave, a late Lower Paleolithic site in Israel. For over two million years, early humans were noticing, collecting and b

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Horashim East: a newly discovered Middle Palaeolithic site in central Israel

Autor: Francesca Romagnoli, Viviane Slon, Ella Assaf

Publikováno v: Journal of Quaternary Science. 37:1-5

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https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3387

Beyond Tools and Function: The Selection of Materials and the Ontology of Hunter-Gatherers. Ethnographic Evidences and Implications for Palaeolithic Archaeology

Autor: Francesca Romagnoli, Ella Assaf

Publikováno v: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 31:281-291

In this paper we discuss the universal selection of exceptional materials for tool making in prehistory. The interpretation suggested in the literature for these non-standard materials is usually limited to a general statement, considering possible a

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774320000359

Shaped stone balls were used for bone marrow extraction at Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel

Autor: Ezra Zilberman, Jordi Rosell, Javier Baena, Oded Bar, Isabella Caricola, Ran Barkai, Cristina Lemorini, Ella Assaf, Emanuela Cristiani, Ruth Blasco, Avi Gopher

Publikováno v: Biblos-e Archivo: Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)
PLOS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 4, p e0230972 (2020)
PLoS ONE

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 presence of these items in the archaeological record over a period o

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http://hdl.handle.net/10486/693024