Science: Archaeology: Periods and Cultures: Prehistory: Paleolithic

Shannon McPherron (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania) report on research at several sites in Europe and Abydos in Egypt.

A guide to the climatic changes that occurred during the Paleolithic.

An article that argues that Paleolithic cave art is a depiction of human and animal relationships in prehistory.

A report on a site located in Ossetia, Russia presented by Nazim Hidjrati, Larry Kimball, and Todd Koetje at the 1996 Paleoanthropology meetings.

Summary of the style-versus-function debate regarding Paleolithic stone tools. Includes references.

Larry Barham reports in British Archaeology that evidence of modern human behaviour 200,000 years old may have been found in Africa.

A description of the eating habits of our ancestors. Features commentary derived from a email discussion list on nutrition.

A image gallery of megafauna on display at the Russian Paleontological Institute.

A dietary analysis based on carbon atoms in the tooth enamel of fossil ancestors.

Features an overview chronology and provides brief descriptions of sites and fossil finds.

Mark Roberts discusses why was Europe colonised by hominids half a million years ago. Published in the Journal of British Archaeology in 1996.

An illustrated overview of Neanderthal living.

Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). The origin of blade technology used to be located at the Upper Paleolithic and identified with anatomically modern humans. (PDF)

400,000bp Lower Palaeolithic hunting station of Homo erectus has produced not only thousands of well-preserved mammal remains and eight wooden spears.

A description of climatic conditions during the Paleolithic.