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    Robberg Lithic Technology from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1

    The Robberg technocomplex of southern Africa (~ 26 to 12 thousand years ago) is the earliest well-defined and widespread technocomplex of the...

    Sara E. Watson, Nicolas Zwyns, ... Naomi Cleghorn in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
    09 April 2025
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    An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China

    Leonardo Carmignani, Igor Djakovic, ... Marie Soressi in Nature Ecology & Evolution
    29 October 2024
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    The Initial Upper Paleolithic from Tolbor-16, Mongolia: Characteristics of the Lithic Assemblage and Their Evolutionary Implications

    According to fossil evidence, the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) refers to archaeological assemblages associated with the early dispersal of Homo...

    Nicolas Zwyns, Bolorbat Tsedendorj, ... Gunchinsuren Byambaa in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
    02 July 2024 Open access
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    A Cold Habitat: Mapping Blade Assemblages Between the Siberian Altai and the Tibetan Plateau During MIS 3

    How and why early hunter–gatherers expanded into the challenging environments of the Tibetan Plateau during the Pleistocene remain largely...

    Peiqi Zhang, Randall Haas, ... Nicolas Zwyns in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
    30 April 2024 Open access
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    Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia)

    Figurative depictions in art first occur ca. 50,000 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Considered by most as an advanced form of...

    Solange Rigaud, Evgeny P. Rybin, ... Nicolas Zwyns in Scientific Reports
    12 June 2023 Open access
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    Introduction of a Special Issue “Across steppes and mountains: the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia

    “Across steppes and mountains: the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia” is a collection of papers that aim at clarifying a once elusive phenomenon...

    Masami Izuho, Nicolas Zwyns, Steven Kuhn in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
    15 September 2021
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    The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central and East Asia: Blade Technology, Cultural Transmission, and Implications for Human Dispersals

    Archaeological assemblages labeled as Initial Upper Paleolithic are often seen as possible evidence for dispersals of Homo sapiens populations in...

    20 June 2021 Open access
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    Mongolia: Paleolithic

    Nicolas Zwyns, S. Gladyshev, ... B. Gunchinsuren in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
    2020
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    Altai: Paleolithic

    2020
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    The Northern Route for Human dispersal in Central and Northeast Asia: New evidence from the site of Tolbor-16, Mongolia

    The fossil record suggests that at least two major human dispersals occurred across the Eurasian steppe during the Late Pleistocene. Neanderthals and...

    Nicolas Zwyns, Cleantha H. Paine, ... Jean-Jacques Hublin in Scientific Reports
    13 August 2019 Open access
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    Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

    We present the high-quality genome sequence of a ∼45,000-year-old modern human male from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that...

    Qiaomei Fu, Heng Li, ... Svante Pääbo in Nature
    22 October 2014
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    Altai: Paleolithic

    2014
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    Mongolia: Paleolithic

    Nicolas Zwyns, S. Gladyshev, ... B. Gunchinsuren in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
    2014
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