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A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan (2024)
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Michalec, G., Andrieux, E., Kim, J. Y., Sohn, Y. K., Cendrowska, M., Ehlert, M., Armitage, S. J., Moska, P., Szmit, M., Nassr, A., & Masojć, M. (online). A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan. Journal of Field Archaeology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2024.2367833

This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate human activity in this area dur... Read More about A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan.

Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal (2024)
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Bailiff, I., Andrieux, E., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Alves, L., Comendador Rey, B., García Sanjuán, L., & Martín Seijo, M. (2024). Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal. Quaternary Geochronology, 83, Article 101569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101569

The emergence of ‘standing stone’ monuments within the European Late Prehistoric landscape is considered to be associated with a pivotal human cultural transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and permanent settlement, being the earliest... Read More about Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal.

First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia (2024)
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Stewart, M., Andrieux, E., Blinkhorn, J., Guagnin, M., Fernandes, R., Vanwezer, N., Hatton, A., Alqahtani, M., Zalmout, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A., Al-Shanti, M., Zahrani, B., Al Omari, A., Al-Jibreen, F., Alsharekh, A. M., Scerri, E. M. L., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. D., & Groucutt, H. S. (2024). First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE, 19(4), Article e0299292. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299292

Recent advances in interdisciplinary archaeological research in Arabia have focused on the evolution and historical development of regional human populations as well as the diverse patterns of cultural change, migration, and adaptations to environmen... Read More about First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia.

A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan) (2021)
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Michalec, G., Cendrowska, M., Andrieux, E., Armitage, S. J., Ehlert, M., Kim, J. Y., Sohn, Y. K., Krupa-Kurzynowska, J., Moska, P., Szmit, M., & Masojć, M. (2021). A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan). Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(8), https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1993618

This paper presents the results of the analysis of a late Acheulean horizon from the EDAR 135 site, which was discovered in the Eastern Desert, Sudan, in an area heavily transformed by modern mining activity. A lithic assemblage was discovered there,... Read More about A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan).

Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years (2021)
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Groucutt, H. S., White, T. S., Scerri, E. M., Andrieux, E., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P. S., Armitage, S. J., Stewart, M., Drake, N., Louys, J., Price, G. J., Duval, M., Parton, A., Candy, I., Carleton, W. C., Shipton, C., Jennings, R. P., Zahir, M., Blinkhorn, J., Blockley, S., …Petraglia, M. D. (2021). Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 597(7876), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03863-y

Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia1,2,3,4. Archaeological and palaeontological records from the Levantine woodland zone documen... Read More about Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years.

Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory (2021)
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Stewart, M., Andrieux, E., Clark-Wilson, R., Vanwezer, N., Blinkhorn, J., Armitage, S. J., al Omari, A., Zahrani, B., Alqahtani, M., Al-Shanti, M., Zalmout, I., Al-Mufarreh, Y. S., Alsharekh, A. M., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. D., & Groucutt, H. S. (2021). Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(8), Article 139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01365-6

Studies of modern carnivore accumulations of bone (i.e., neo-taphonomy) are crucial for interpreting fossil accumulations in the archaeological and paleontological records. Yet, studies in arid regions have been limited in both number and detailed ta... Read More about Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory.

Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia (2021)
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Masojć, M., Nassr, A., Kim, J. Y., Ehlert, M., Michalec, G., Krupa-Kurzynowska, J., Sohn, Y. K., Andrieux, E., Armitage, S. J., Szmit, M., Kim, J. C., Kim, J. S., Cendrowska, M., Dreczko, E., Moska, P., Kim, K. J., & Choi, Y. (2021). Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia. Journal of African archaeology (Internet), 19(2), 235-244. https://doi.org/10.1163/21915784-20210003

This research note presents evidence for the oldest Middle Pleistocene Eastern Saharan human activity from the area referred to as the Eastern Desert Atbara River (EDAR), Sudan, which is currently threatened by gold mining. Preliminary results of mul... Read More about Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia.

The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan (2021)
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Masojć, M., Kim, J. Y., Krupa-Kurzynowska, J., Sohn, Y. K., Ehlert, M., Michalec, G., Cendrowska, M., Andrieux, E., Armitage, S. J., Szmit, M., Dreczko, E., Kim, J. C., Kim, J. S., Lee, G.-S., Moska, P., & Jadain, M. A. (2021). The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan. PLoS ONE, 16(3), Article e0248279. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248279

Although essential for reconstructing hominin behaviour during the Early Palaeolithic, only a handful of Acheulean sites have been dated in the Eastern Sahara region. This is due to the scarcity of sites for this time period and the lack of datable m... Read More about The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan.