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Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern N
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Michael S. Bisson, Randall White
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Culture. 16:61-64
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Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño, Ariane Burke, José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros, Michael S. Bisson, Natividad Fuertes-Prieto, Felipe Cuartero, Carlos Arteaga Cardineau, José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández
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Journal of Field Archaeology. 46:1-20
The central Meseta is a high plateau located in the heart of the Iberian Peninsula. Abundant evidence of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic occupations of the region contrasts with scarce evidence of a ...
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13
Even after a century of research, the nature of the transition from the Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic in the Levant remains elusive. Responding to the sharp discontinuity in material culture, Jelinek argued that Unit X of Tabun Cave, Israel, can offer
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Quaternary International. 428:118-131
In this paper we assess the evidence for on-site manufacture and re-sharpening of handaxes in the Lower Paleolithic layers of Tabun Cave by examining the ratio of thinning flakes, the typical waste of bifacial manufacture, to handaxes. Our study of t
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Quaternary International. 331:60-73
Large open-air archaeological sites provide a unique contribution to our understanding of the range of environments exploited by hominins and how their mobility patterns were affected by local, regional, and global environmental fluctuations. The cha
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Quaternary International. 331:74-94
WZM-2, a flint-source on the edge of the Madaba Plateau, Jordan, exemplifies many of the problems archaeologists confront in investigating open-air sites. This site has a complex history of alternating episodes of deposition, erosion and colluvial mo
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Geoarchaeology. 20:29-56
This paper examines recurrent spatial patterns of prehistoric sites in relation to landforms, alluvial fills, and soil development in the uplands and valleys of the Madaba and Dhiban Plateaus of Jordan. Mousterian lithics (Middle Paleolithic) are lar
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Michael S. Bisson
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 11:165-184
This article investigates the degree and nature of ‘imposed form’ in Middle Palaeolithic scrapers, the most common category of stone tool produced by Neanderthals. Novice flintknappers unfamiliar with Middle Palaeolithic tool forms were found to