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Palaeolithic Cleaver from the Sahel: Freak or Fact?
A Palaeolithic Large Cutting Tool, of the sort familiar to archaeologists working on East African sites such as Olduvai Gorge, Olorgesailie, and Kalambo Falls was recovered during fieldwork at Kufan Kanawa in February 2003.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/haour/haour.html
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Fragments of Stone Sculptures from Igbomina
In 1933, H. G. Ramshaw, the CMS School Inspector for the Oro area, informed the public of the presence of stone figures in the area. Over 800 pieces of carved stone, mostly representing human figures, are located at Esie in western Igbomina.
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Exploration and Survey of Pleistocene Hominid Sites in Armenia and Karabagh
Recent discoveries in the Caucasus region indicate that hominids occupied this area over a period of nearly two million years. The earliest hominids outside Africa are known from the Georgian site of Dmanisi in the southern Caucasus.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/King/king.html
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Prehistoric Sites in Northern Armenia
An intensive field survey in Northern Armenia. Antiquity Vol 78 No 301 September 2004.
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Excavations at the Buddhist Monastic Site of Bhasu Vihara
Excavations at the Buddhist monastic site of Bhasu Vihara were undertaken in March 2003 as part of a long-term multinational project at the ancient walled city of Mahasthangarh.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/smith/index.html
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The Size of the ChineseTerracotta Warriors
Analyse here the height of these figures on the basis of a sample of 734 measurements, in order to consider the extent to which this imaginary army reflects the actual physical size of the Chinese population of the time.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/komlos/komlos.html
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Current Middle & Upper Palaeolithic Research in the Southern Caucasus
An international research team has been reinvestigating Ortvale Klde, a Palaeolithic rockshelter located in the Georgian Republic. The main goals of this project have been to document Middle and Upper Palaeolithic patterns of lithic reduction, land-use a
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Adler/adler.html
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The Origins of Iron-working in India
Recent excavations in Uttar Pradesh have turned up iron artefacts, furnaces, tuyeres and slag in layers radiocarbon dated between c. BCE 1800 and 1000.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/tewari/tewari.pdf
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Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam
Significant conceptual developments in Indian prehistory and Quaternary studies had their origin in research at this site, which was also characterised as a type-site of the Acheulian handaxe-based 'Madras Industries'.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/pappu/pappu.html
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An Extensive Middle Palaeolithic Quarry Landscape in the Kaladgi Basin
The Kaladgi Basin is a well-known region of southern India as the area has been subject to archaeological surveys from the 1960s to the 1980s. Survey has resulted in the identification of 191 Middle Palaeolithic localities along the margins of the Malapr
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Petraglia/Petraglia.html
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