A5033252401- Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Law and Political Science
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Criminal Law and Policy
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- German Security and Defense Policies
- European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Diverse Legal and Medical Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Intellectual Property Rights and Media
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Thallium and Germanium Studies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Engineering and Materials Science Studies
University of Tübingen
2015-2025
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2022-2024
Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité
2018-2024
Université Paris Nanterre
2017-2023
Leiden University
2023
University of Vienna
2019
Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
2019
Institute of Natural Sciences
2019
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2018
Technical University of Darmstadt
2008-2013
Projectile technology is considered to appear early in the southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA) and rich high resolution MSA sequence of Sibudu Cave KwaZulu-Natal has provided many new insights about use hafting various projectile forms. We present results a functional technological analysis on series unpublished serrated bifacial points recently recovered from basal deposits Cave. These tools, which only find equivalents neighbouring site Umhlatuzana, precede Still Bay techno-complex are...
In the past few decades, a diverse array of research has emphasized precocity technically advanced and symbolic practices occurring during southern African Middle Stone Age. However, uncertainties regarding regional chrono-cultural framework constrain models identification cultural ecological mechanisms triggering development such early innovative behaviours. Here, we present new results refined chronology for Pietersburg, techno-complex initially defined in late 1920's, which disappeared...
Blade technology, long associated solely with the Upper Paleolithic (UP) as an indicator of modern behavior, appears early Middle Pleistocene and is present during (MP) Stone Age (MSA). The nature behind appearance laminar assemblages remains poorly understood. Yet current excavations at Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) have yielded MIS 5 lithic that contribute to understanding diversity blade technologies MSA. Following chaîne opératoire approach, we explain how knappers developed...
This article presents a pilot experiment conducted to better understand how Middle Pleistocene hominins might have processed and exploited elephants using simple stone bone tools. The was in three phases: (1) production of small, flake-based tools, (2) butchery the lower hind-leg an Indian elephant, (3) manufacture tools from tibia. shows it is possible cut through elephant skin under four minutes small chipped-stone flakes; disarticulating astragalus tibia relatively easy, whereas other...
Over the past decade, increasing wealth of new archaeological data on Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Senegal and Mali has broadened our understanding West Africa's contributions to cultural developments. Within African sequence, phase Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3, ca. 59-24 ka) yielded so far best known extensive information. The site Toumboura III encompasses an occupation dated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) between 40 ± ka 30 ka. It provides largest, well-dated, stratified lithic...
Abstract Identifying, analyzing, and explaining trends in the development of material culture is one major concerns prehistoric archaeology. The traditional recording data typologies, however, not optimal for answering question diachronic change because typological capture variability poorly are often incompatible with multivariate statistics. To overcome these problems, we present PyREnArA (Python-R-Environment Artifact Analysis), a trait-based tool that allows systematic diversity way...
In southern Africa, key technologies and symbolic behaviors develop as early the later Middle Stone Age in MIS5. These innovations arise independently various places, contexts forms, until their full expression during Still Bay Howiesons Poort. The sequence from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, on West Coast of region, preserves archaeological proxies that help unravelling cultural processes at work. This unit yields one oldest abstract engraving so far discovered form a rhomboid marking cortical...
We develop a study protocol to efficiently and accurately identify the raw material categories constituting lithic assemblages at Umhlatuzana rockshelter, South Africa. combine visual analytical methods establish database provide more accurate insight into selection during Pleistocene Middle Later Stone Age occupational sequence of Umhlatuzana. The combines petrological properties (as studied on micromorphological samples), elemental composition specimens measured with p-XRF)...
In southern Africa, key technologies and symbolic behaviors develop as early the later Middle Stone Age in MIS5. These innovations arise independently various places, contexts forms, until their full expression during Still Bay Howiesons Poort. The sequence from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, on West Coast of region, preserves archaeological proxies that help unravelling cultural processes at work. This unit yields one oldest abstract engraving so far discovered form a rhomboid marking cortical...
The well-dated stratigraphic sequence of Willendorf II is a reference site for the Upper Palaeolithic in general and Gravettian particular. In 1993, joint team from Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Brussels, Belgium) University Vienna carried out excavations at this loess Danube Valley known since end 19th century. During excavation season, recovered 391 artefacts, majority attributed to AH 6 8. We performed technological study based on an attribute analysis lithic...
The well-dated stratigraphic sequence of Willendorf II is a reference site for the Upper Palaeolithic in general and Gravettian particular. In 1993, joint team from Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Brussels, Belgium) University Vienna carried out excavations at this loess Danube Valley known since end 19th century. During excavation season, recovered 391 artefacts, majority attributed to AH 6 8. We performed technological study based on an attribute analysis lithic...
Since more than 80 years, the University of Tübingen hosts archaeological collections excavated by Margit and Ludwig Kohl-Larsen between 1934 1939 in modern-day Tanzania. Despite great scientific relevance these collections, most them were never published on an international scale thus unavailable for broader Africanist community. In light new excavations around Lake Eyasi, conducted jointly Universities Dar es Salaam Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, we decided to undertake a...