Cultural Evolution in Africa and Eurasia During the Middle and Late Pleistocene

Conard, Nicholas J.

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“…This kind of activity would have underlined the reciprocal relationships that bound group members together and gave them a competitive advantage over groups who had less well developed community activities with delayed profits from investment of technology and labor. We can now add rope making technology using perforated batons to the innovations associated with the arrival of Aurignacian hunter-gatherers in Central Europe (36,37).…”

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Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago

Conard,

Rots

2024

Sci. Adv.

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Evidence for the manufacture and use of fiber technology such as rope and twine is rare in the Paleolithic, despite the widely held view that such artifacts were in regular use during the Pleistocene. On the basis of the discovery of a more than 35,000-year-old perforated baton made from mammoth ivory at Hohle Fels Cave in Ach Valley of southwestern Germany together with experimental studies, we are now able to demonstrate one way people of the early Upper Paleolithic manufactured rope. This work contributes to our understanding of the evolution of technology, cooperative work, and Paleolithic social organization.

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Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago

Conard,

Rots

2024

Sci. Adv.

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“…Currently, there is mounting evidence for behavioral parallels between the two hominin species (Grayson and Delpech 2006;Peresani et al 2011;Soressi et al 2013). A notable exception is the range and extent of symbolic behavior, which appears to be limited for Neanderthals (Conard 2013;Pettitt 2008). In addition, our prior understanding of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens as two distinct species has been refined by evidence of hybridization between the two populations based on ancient genetics (Fu et al 2015;Green et al 2010;Mafessoni and Prüfer 2017).…”

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The Fauna from the Middle Paleolithic: Settlement, Dietary Patterns and Technology in the Swabian Jura

Kitagawa,

Münzel,

Starkovich

et al. 2024

The Rhine During the Middle Paleolithic: Boundary or Corridor?

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With 150 years of research on the Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura, the region offers one of the richest records of Neanderthal occupation. The faunal remains from the caves of the Ach and Lone valleys provide an important source of data from Central Europe. Sites in the Lauchert and Brenz valleys further augment the picture. The frequency of burned bone remains demonstrates inter-site variability in Neanderthal occupation and some sites show carnivore and cave bear activities, which spatially overlapped with that of hominins. The studies demonstrate that Bockstein was the most frequently visited site during the Middle Paleolithic (MP). Horse often dominates the faunal assemblages with additional exploitation of reindeer and bovids. The role of mammoth and woolly rhinoceros in MP subsistence is hotly debated, remaining an open-ended question, but megafauna were occasionally exploited albeit at a lower frequency than during the Aurignacian. In addition, retouchers were a common osseous tool type during the MP in the Swabian Jura. These data compliment the MP record of the Rhine region and help us better understand the adaptation of Neanderthals in Central Europe.

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Cultural Evolution in Africa and Eurasia During the Middle and Late Pleistocene

Cited by 2 publications

References 141 publications

Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago

Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago

The Fauna from the Middle Paleolithic: Settlement, Dietary Patterns and Technology in the Swabian Jura

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