Early hominid dispersals: A technological hypothesis for “out of Africa”

The Acheulean workshop of la Noira (France, 700 ka) in the European technological context

“…M.-H. Moncel et al / Quaternary International xxx (2015) 1e25 13 sized flake production industries with a low tool ratio (Lumley et al, 1988;Carbonell et al, 1999Carbonell et al, , 2010Mosquera et al, 2013;Lombera-Hermida de et al, 2015). At Dmanisi (Georgia, 1.7e1.8 Ma), hominins exploited local rocks (cobbles and angular blocks, mainly in basalt, andesite and tuff).…”

The Lower/early Middle Pleistocene small débitage productions in Western Europe: New data from Isernia La Pineta t.3c (Upper Volturno Basin, Italy)

“…lithic assemblages, have therefore served as a basis for several scholars to identify technical traditions and to draw scenarios on the tempos, modes, and causes of the first European human settlements and their origins (Bonifay and Vandermeersch, 1991;Rolland, 1992;Roebroeks and van Kolfschoten, 1994, 1998Mussi, 1995;Carbonell et al, 1996Carbonell et al, , 1999bCarbonell et al, , 2009Carbonell et al, , 2010Dennell and Roebroeks, 1996;Aguirre and Carbonell, 2001;Bar-Yosef and Belfer-Cohen, 2001;Straus, 2001;Villa, 2001;Otte, 2004;Molines et al, 2005;Monnier, 2006;Peretto, 2006;Santonja and Villa, 2006;McNabb, 2007;Lycett and von Cramon-Taubadel, 2008; de Lumley et al, 2009;Muttoni et al, 2010;Mosquera et al, 2013).…”

The oldest handaxes in Europe: fact or artefact?

“…During the last two decades, a number of issues related to the earliest arrival of the genus Homo in Europe have been subject to intense debate, including the chronology of the first human settlements (e.g., Dennell andRoebroeks, 1996, 2005;Dennell, 2003;Moncel, 2010), the dispersal routes (e.g., Bar-Yosef and Belfer-Cohen, 2001;Nikitas and Nikita, 2005), the techno-cultural developments of the population that dispersed out of Africa (e.g., Carbonell et al, 1999Carbonell et al, , 2010Antón and Swisher, 2004;Toro et al, 2009, in press) and both the ecological context and climatic conditions in which this dispersal event took place (e.g., Arribas and Palmqvist, 1999;Martínez-Navarro, 2004Rook et al, 2004;Turner & O'Regan, 2007;Agustí et al, 2009).…”