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Out of Africa, the Nile Valley and the Northern Route KU Leuven
Hypotheses on the dispersal patterns of modern humans out of Africa have undergone much change in the past decade, with new ideas on the routes and geographic extent of movements proposed. New data and perspectives from the Nile Valley necessitate reassessment of the role of the Northern Route. Here, fossil evidence and technological strategies followed in the Nile Valley between WO 000 to 300 000 years ago, and its relevance to dispersal ...
The characterization of sedimentary quartzite artefacts from Mesolithic sites, Belgium KU Leuven
This work presents an extensive characterization study of quartzitic tools from different Mesolithic sites in Belgium (with several sites in the vicinity of Tienen). Their properties are compared with those of natural outcrops, i.e. the Wommersom and Tienen quartzite and a third unknown variety. Therefore, a detailed petrographical and geochemical study is performed by means of optical microscopy, point counting, image analysis, scanning ...
Aspects of tool production, use, and hafting in Palaeolithic assemblages from Northeast Africa KU Leuven
A detailed microwear study was performed on several assemblages from Northeast Africa to provide an anthropological scenario of late middle and upper Pleistocene populations in the Nile Valley and adjacent zones. Results are presented from the wear analysis of five sites, and an interpretation is provided of the keystones of MSA behaviour and its evolution throughout about 150,000 years. Locally available raw materials were predominantly used. ...
The Chaîne opératoire Approach in Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology KU Leuven
Since the pioneering days of Paleolithic archaeology in western Europe, the making of stone tools has received special attention. Numerous studies were aimed at creating systematic typologies of artifacts based on descriptions of their technical features and morphological attributes. Recently, the concept of chaîne opératoire, or "operational sequence" (sometimes called "core reduction sequence"), borrowed from French social anthropologists, has ...