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Quaternary, Volume 7, Issue 4

December 2024 - 19 articles

Cover Story: Paleolithic people intentionally collected and recycled old, patinated flint tools made by their predecessors—a practice found across the Old World, including the Early Paleolithic Levant. These recycled tools have distinct life cycles: initial use, discard, patination, collection after an unknown period, and recycling that revealed fresh flint surfaces. This act of collecting and recycling was not driven by scarcity, as fresh flint was available. Instead, it appears to be a deliberate choice, likely for functional and perceptual reasons. One prominent recycling method prioritized preserving the tool's original form, aged surfaces, and old scars while minimizing reshaping to create a new working edge. These findings raise questions about memory preservation in the deep past alongside functionality. View this paper
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,343 Views
27 Pages

16 December 2024

This study examines the prevalent practice of recycling patinated flint tools (“double patina”) of 18 lithic assemblages from three Late Lower Paleolithic sites in Israel. Determined as recycled from ‘old’ patinated items usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,163 Views
21 Pages

The Early Pleistocene Carnivoran of Coste San Giacomo (Anagni, Central Italy): Biochronological Implications

  • Luca Bellucci,
  • Fabio Bona,
  • Jacopo Conti,
  • Beniamino Mecozzi,
  • Flavia Strani and
  • Raffaele Sardella

12 December 2024

Coste San Giacomo (CSG) represents a significant paleontological site to investigate the faunal and environmental changes that occurred in Mediterranean Europe during the Early Pleistocene. In this work, we described for the first time the Carnivoran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,895 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2024

The fortified hilltop settlement of Monkodonja, located near Rovinj on the west coast of Istria, Croatia, provides insight into Bronze Age occupation and conflict in the Adriatic region. Established around 2000 BC, as evidenced by a series of C14 dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,063 Views
18 Pages

Aeolian Sands of the Temperate Boreal Zone (Northern Asia)

  • Nikolay Akulov,
  • Maria Rubtsova,
  • Varvara Akulova,
  • Yurii Ryzhov and
  • Maksim Smirnov

5 December 2024

This article is devoted to the study of the Quaternary aeolian sands of the boreal zone of north Asia. Using the example of the study reference sections of the Selenga Dauria (Western Transbaikalia), it was established that the activation of aeolian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,638 Views
47 Pages

The Lost MIS 11c Mammalian Fauna from Via dell’Impero (Rome, Italy)

  • Maria Rita Palombo,
  • Biagio Giaccio,
  • Lorenzo Monaco,
  • Roberta Martino,
  • Marina Amanatidou and
  • Luca Pandolfi

4 December 2024

This research presents an in-depth analysis of large mammal remains first discovered in 1932 in the archaeological area of ancient Rome, central Italy, during the work for the opening of Via dell’Impero (VFI). This work describes the faunal ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,535 Views
24 Pages

3 December 2024

A detailed high-resolution study of climate and vegetation changes in two sedimentary profiles from the Godavari delta in India was conducted to understand extreme climate variability over the last 3000 years. These historical climate records are vit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,962 Views
25 Pages

Hydroclimatic Changes Revealed by Multiple Proxies Since the Last Glacial Maximum from the Core Monsoon Zone of India

  • Mohammad Firoze Quamar,
  • Jyotsna Dubey,
  • Pooja Tiwari,
  • Prasanta Kumar Das,
  • Biswajeet Thakur,
  • Mohammad Javed,
  • Nagendra Prasad,
  • M. E. T. Maneesha and
  • Satish J. Sangode

21 November 2024

We present multiproxy records from a 2.25-m-long lake sediment profile from central India, which suggested that between ~22,200 and 18,658 cal yr BP, the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) was weak, supporting open vegetation in a cool and dry climate, whic...

  • Comment
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,093 Views
8 Pages

21 November 2024

On 2015, after the direct study of the most important Late Villafranchian fossil collections of Europe and Western Asia, including Orce (Spain), Pirro Nord and Upper Valdarno (Italy), Appollonia (Greece), Dmanisi (Georgia) and ‘Ubeidiya (Israel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,797 Views
22 Pages

18 November 2024

In the Afrotropic biogeographic realm, with its diverse and high-density mammal population, early humans may have been hunting with stone-tipped weapons since ~500,000 years ago. Being able to hunt effectively from a distance has several important ad...

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