Some sites of interest
International Council for Archaeozoology: ICAZ
Zotero TAPHEN Group (Zotero is a free and open source Library manager, see "docs" on this site)
GDR TAPHENA
Zotero TAPHEN Group (Zotero is a free and open source Library manager, see "docs" on this site)
GDR TAPHENA
RTP TAPHENA
Global Weathering Project
CAIRN Compétences Archéométriques Interdisciplinaires - Réseau National CNRS
Global Weathering Project
CAIRN Compétences Archéométriques Interdisciplinaires - Réseau National CNRS
Articles to read
Early evidence of fire in south‑western
Europe: the Acheulean site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal)
Montserrat
Sanz, Joan Daura, Dan Cabanes, Natalia Égüez, Ángel Carrancho,
Ernestina Badal, Pedro Souto, Filipa Rodrigues, João Zilhão
The
site of Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of
human occupancy dating to ca. 400 ka (Marine Isotope Stage 11),
is one of the very few Middle Pleistocene localities to have provided a
fossil hominin cranium associated with Acheulean bifaces in a cave
context. The multianalytic study reported here of the by-products of
burning recorded in layer X suggests the presence
of anthropogenic fires at the site, among the oldest such evidence in
south-western Europe. The burnt material consists of bone, charcoal and,
possibly, quartzite cobbles. These finds were made in a small area of
the cave and in two separate occupation horizons.
Our results add to our still-limited knowledge about the controlled use
of fire in the Lower Palaeolithic