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Neanderthalers in de Lagune van Haacht KU Leuven
At the lakeshore – An Early Nubian Complex site linked with lacustrine sediments (Eastern Desert, Egypt) KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA Open-air sites dating to the Pleistocene are very rare in the Eastern Desert of Egypt due to the often erosive hyper-arid landscape and its highly geomorphological dynamics. But information retrieved from such sites is also important for an enhanced understanding of the Middle Stone Age in Northeast Africa, though open-air sites present challenges of their own in comparison with cave sites. During an archaeological ...
The emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in north-western Europe and its southern fringes KU Leuven
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA The nature of the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic transition has been one of the most debated questions in early Prehistory since the mid-20th century. The root of these debates lies primarily in how early prehistorians constructed chronological models, relying heavily upon index fossils. Such models have “artificial boundaries designed to provide structure to a complex record and, rather than being conceived of as ...
Technological Systems, Population Dynamics and Historical Process in the MSA of Northern Africa KU Leuven
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. This paper presents an alternative historical interpretation of regional patterns in MSA lithic industries of northern Africa, based on the observation that our current systematics often disguise real similarities and differences in the archaeological record. With regard to the early MSA, it is argued that the geographical distribution of the Sangoan is much wider than previously acknowledged ...