Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery

The Palaeolithic record of Greece: A synthesis of the evidence and a research agenda for the future

(2018) Vangelis Tourloukis et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa

(2018) Alan L. Deino et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

(2018) Richard Potts et al.   SCIENCE

Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago

(2018) T. Ingicco et al.   NATURE

Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution

(2018) R. Bernhart Owen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extracting residues from stone tools for optical analysis: towards an experiment-based protocol

(2017) Dries Cnuts et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution

(2016) Ignacio de la Torre   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

After the Lower Palaeolithic: Lithic ramification in the early Middle Palaeolithic of Orgnac 3, layer 2 (Ardèche, France)

(2016) Cyrielle Mathias   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Palaeoloxodon exploitation at the Middle Pleistocene site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)

(2016) Ernesto Santucci et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

European Acheuleans: Critical perspectives from the East

(2016) Roxane Rocca et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Not the brain alone: The nutritional potential of elephant heads in Paleolithic sites

(2016) Aviad Agam et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Mode 1 or mode 2? “Small tools” in the technical variability of the European Lower Palaeolithic: The site of Ficoncella (Tarquinia, Lazio, central Italy)

(2016) Daniele Aureli et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Making Sense of Residues on Flaked Stone Artefacts: Learning from Blind Tests

(2016) Veerle Rots et al.   PLoS One

Residue and microwear analyses of the stone artifacts from Schöningen

(2015) Veerle Rots et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Intra-site variability in lithic recycling at Qesem Cave, Israel

(2015) Ella Assaf et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Looking for sharp edges: Modes of flint recycling at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel

(2015) Yoni Parush et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The function of recycled lithic items at late Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel: An overview of the use-wear data

(2015) Cristina Lemorini et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Use and re-use: Re-knapped flakes from the Mode 1 site of Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Andalucía, Spain)

(2015) Deborah Barsky et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Lithic recycling in a Middle Paleolithic expedient context: Evidence from the Abric Romaní (Capellades, Spain)

(2015) Manuel Vaquero et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Predicting the preservation of cultural artefacts and buried materials in soil

(2015) Mark Kibblewhite et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Fat Residue and Use-Wear Found on Acheulian Biface and Scraper Associated with Butchered Elephant Remains at the Site of Revadim, Israel

(2015) Natalya Solodenko et al.   PLoS One

Edge Angle as a Variably Influential Factor in Flake Cutting Efficiency: An Experimental Investigation of Its Relationship with Tool Size and Loading

(2014) A. J. M. Key et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Testing the Efficiency of Simple Flakes, Retouched Flakes and Small Handaxes During Butchery

(2013) A. B. Galán et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Are bigger flakes always better? An experimental assessment of flake size variation on cutting efficiency and loading

(2013) Alastair J.M. Key et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Adaptive Flexibility of Oldowan Hominins: Secondary Use of Flakes at Bizat Ruhama, Israel

(2013) Yossi Zaidner   PLoS One

Flake modification in European Early and Early–Middle Pleistocene stone tool assemblages

(2013) Deborah Barsky et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

On meat eating and human evolution: A taphonomic analysis of BK4b (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), and its bearing on hominin megafaunal consumption

(2013) M. Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Swept under the rug: the problem of unacknowledged ambiguity in lithic residue identification

(2012) Gilliane F. Monnier et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

How an integrated diagnostic approach can help in a correct evaluation of the state of preservation of waterlogged archaeological wooden artefacts

(2012) Nicola Macchioni et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Elephants at the Middle Pleistocene Acheulian open-air site of Revadim Quarry, Israel

(2012) R. Rabinovich et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Archaeological horizons and fluvial processes at the Lower Paleolithic open-air site of Revadim (Israel)☆

(2010) Ofer Marder et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Early and Middle Pleistocene Faunal and hominins dispersals through Southwestern Asia

(2010) Ofer Bar-Yosef et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Adipocere withstands 1600 years of fluctuating groundwater levels in soil

(2009) S. Fiedler et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Remains of the day-preservation of organic micro-residues on stone tools

(2009) Geeske H.J. Langejans   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Effects of Heavy Metal Contamination upon Soil Microbes: Lead-induced Changes in General and Denitrifying Microbial Communities as Evidenced by Molecular Markers

(2008) Dmitri Sobolev et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health