Standout Papers
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Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century1,2
2005 Standout
70 000-year old geometric backed tools from the Howiesons Poort at Klasies River, South Africa: were they used for hunting?
2007
The Howiesons Poort of South Africa: what we know, what we think we know, what we need to know
2005
Hunting weapons of the Middle Stone Age and the Middle Palaeolithic: spear points from Sibudu, Rose Cottage and Bouheben
2006
Middle Stone Age lithic point experimentation for macro-fracture and residue analyses: the process and preliminary results with reference to Sibudu Cave points
2004
A new Palaeolithic discovery: tar-hafted stone tools in a European Mid-Pleistocene bone-bearing bed
2006
DATING OF THE HOMINID (HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS) REMAINS ACCUMULATION FROM EL SIDRÓN CAVE (PILOÑA, ASTURIAS, NORTH SPAIN): AN EXAMPLE OF A MULTI‐METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE DATING OF UPPER PLEISTOCENE SITES
2009
Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Western Cape Province, South Africa) in context: The Cape Floral kingdom, shellfish, and modern human origins
2010 Standout
A 51,000-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour
2021
Human–climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian
2012
Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age
2006 Standout
Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone
2017 StandoutNobel
Limb bone bilateral asymmetry: variability and commonality among modern humans
2005 Standout
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa
2009 Standout
New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany
2009 StandoutNature
An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language
2001 Standout
Shanidar 3 Neandertal rib puncture wound and paleolithic weaponry
2009
Analysis of Human Accelerated DNA Regions Using Archaic Hominin Genomes
2012 StandoutNobel
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
2007 StandoutNature
Evidence of hunting and hafting during the Middle Stone Age at Sibidu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a multianalytical approach
2005 Standout
The colloidal structure of bitumen: Consequences on the rheology and on the mechanisms of bitumen modification
2008 Standout
On the local Mousterian origin of the Châtelperronian: Integrating typo-technological, chronostratigraphic and contextual data
2015
A Recent Evolutionary Change Affects a Regulatory Element in the Human FOXP2 Gene
2012 StandoutNobel
The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior
2000 Standout
The Human Condition—A Molecular Approach
2014 StandoutNobel
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
2012 StandoutNature
Adults only. Reindeer hunting at the Middle Palaeolithic site Salzgitter Lebenstedt, Northern Germany
2000
The Howiesons Poort and MSA III at Klasies River main site, Cave 1A
2009
Stone tool function at the paleolithic sites of Starosele and Buran Kaya III, Crimea: Behavioral implications
2001
Distribution Patterns of Organic Residues on Middle Stone Age Points from Sibudu Cave, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
2004
Aptitude au language chez les néandertaliens : apport d'une approche pluridisciplinaire
1992
Experimental Evidence Concerning Spear Use in Neandertals and Early Modern Humans
2003
African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene
2004 Standout
The ungulate assemblage from layer A9 at Grotta di Fumane, Italy: A zooarchaeological contribution to the reconstruction of Neanderthal ecology
2014
The Use of a Multivariate Graphic Display Technique as an Exploratory Tool in the Analysis of Inter-assemblage Lithic Variability: a Case Study from Qafzeh Cave, Israel
2000
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
2009 StandoutScience
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2008 Standout
A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal): comparisons with the European Middle Paleolithic
2005
Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
2008 StandoutScience
In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins
1994
Évolution géomorphologique, enregistrements sédimentaires et dynamiques paléoenvironnementales holocènes à Ounjougou (Plateau Dogon, Mali, Afrique de l’Ouest)
2006
Behavioural Complexity in Eurasian Neanderthal Populations: a Chronological Examination of the Archaeological Evidence
2008
HUNTING WEAPONS OF NEANDERTHALS AND EARLY MODERN HUMANS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Similarities and Differences
2010
Indications of bow and stone-tipped arrow use 64 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
2010 Standout
Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution
2001 Science
On the Nature of Transitions: the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic and the Neolithic Revolution
1998
Luminescence dating in archaeology:from origins to optical
1997
Understanding Levallois: Lithic Technology and Cognitive Archaeology
1996
Cognition and communication in the Levantine lower palaeolithic
1994
Practical and prestige technologies: The evolution of material systems
1998 Standout
Lipids as carriers of anthropogenic signals from prehistory
1999
Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels
2001 Standout
Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa
2009 Standout
The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
2002
Tools Underfoot: Human Trampling as an Agent of Lithic Artifact Edge Modification
1998
Sahara and Sahel vulnerability to climate changes, lessons from Holocene hydrological data
2011 Standout
Experimental use and quantitative performance analysis of triangular flakes (Levallois points) used as arrowheads
2009
Making a point: wood-versusstone-tipped projectiles
2009
The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity
2003 Standout
A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa
2010 Standout
Lower Pleistocene Hominids and Artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)
1995 StandoutScience
Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals
2022 StandoutScienceNobel
Organisation saisonnière des comportements de prédation des Moustériens de Pech-de-l’Azé I. Premiers résultats
2001
Transitions or turnovers? Climatically-forced extinctions of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the east Mediterranean Levant
2008
The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa
2017 Standout
New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonization of Australia
1997
Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity
2006
An Early Case of Color Symbolism
2003 Standout
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
2012 Standout
Réflexions sur l'histoire technique de l'Homme : de l'évolution cognitive à l'évolution culturelle
1991
Chaine Operatoire; The Concept and Its Applications
1993
Fifty thousand years of flint knapping and tool shaping across the Mousterian and Uluzzian sequence of Fumane cave
2011
Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert
2010 Standout
Middle Palaeolithic birch-bark pitch
2002
Chewing tar in the early Holocene: an archaeological and ethnographic evaluation
1999
The Howiesons Poort Backed Artefacts from Klasies River: An Argument for Symbolic Behaviour
1999
Bone and ivory points in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe
2001
Review of the uses and modeling of bitumen from ancient to modern times
2003
Kerogen origin, evolution and structure
2007 Standout
Unconventional shale-gas systems: The Mississippian Barnett Shale of north-central Texas as one model for thermogenic shale-gas assessment
2007 Standout
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
2003 Standout
Pointes ou outils triangulaires ? Données fonctionnelles dans le Moustérien levantin [suivi des] Commentaires de J. Shea, A. Marks, J-M Geneste et de la réponse des auteurs
1998
Hafted armatures and multi-component tool design at the Micoquian site of Inden-Altdorf, Germany
2011
Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol
2000 Standout
Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Rose Cottage Cave
2006 Standout
Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub‐Saharan Africa
2002
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
2004 StandoutScience
Were there stone-tipped armatures in the South Asian Middle Paleolithic?
2011
Monte Carlo approach to calculate US-ESR age and age uncertainty for tooth enamel
2014
Use and trade of bitumen in antiquity and prehistory: molecular archaeology reveals secrets of past civilizations
1999
The Biomarker Guide
2004 Standout
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
2015 StandoutScienceNobel
Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
2016 StandoutNobel
Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions
2009
OPTICAL DATING OF SINGLE AND MULTIPLE GRAINS OF QUARTZ FROM JINMIUM ROCK SHELTER, NORTHERN AUSTRALIA: PART I, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND STATISTICAL MODELS*
1999 Standout
The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution
1999
Neanderthal diet at Vindija and Neanderthal predation: The evidence from stable isotopes
2000
Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture
2010 StandoutScienceNobel
The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe
2005
Gibraltar Neanderthals and results of recent excavations in Gorham's, Vanguard and Ibex Caves
1999
Lithic Reduction and Hominid Behavior in the Middle Paleolithic of the Rhineland
1997
Works of Éric Boëda being referenced
Bitumen as a hafting material on Middle Palaeolithic artefacts
1996 Nature
Paléoenvironnement et peuplement humain en Afrique de l'Ouest : rapport de la seconde mission de recherche (1998-1999) sur le gisement d'Ounjougou (Mali)
1999
Ounjougou (Mali) : troisième campagne de recherches dans le cadre du programme Paléoenvironnement et peuplement humain en Afrique de l'Ouest
2000
Preliminary results of combined ESR/U-series dating of fossil teeth from Longgupo cave, China
2012
A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus): hafting, projectiles and Mousterian hunting weapons
1999
Le concept Levallois : variabilité des méthodes
1994
Étude technologique et traces d'utilisation des « éclats débordants » de Corbehem (Pas-de-Calais)
1983
Le débitage discoïde et le débitage Levallois récurrent centripède
1993
New Evidence for Significant Use of Bitumen in Middle Palaeolithic Technical Systems at Umm el Tlel (Syria) around 70,000 BP
2008
Identification de chaînes opératoires lithiques du Paléolithique ancien et moyen
1990 Standout
Ounjougou (Mali) : résultats préliminaires de la quatrième campagne de recherches
2001
Approche de la variabilité des systèmes de production lithique des industries du paléolithique inférieur et moyen : chronique d'une variabilité attendue
1992
L’occupation de l’Aurignacien Ancien De Barbas III (Creysse, Dordogne)
2006