Search Results - "Nilssen, Peter J."

Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene by MAREAN, Curtis W, BAR-MATTHEWS, Miryam, NILSSEN, Peter J, THOMPSON, Erin, WATTS, Ian, WILLIAMS, Hope M, BERNATCHEZ, Jocelyn, FISHER, Erich, GOLDBERG, Paul, HERRIES, Andy I. R, JACOBS, Zenobia, JERARDINO, Antonieta, KARKANAS, Panagiotis, MINICHILLO, Tom

“…Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200 and 100 thousand years (kyr) ago, and recent evidence indicates symbolic…”
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A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa by Bar-Matthews, Miryam, Marean, Curtis W., Jacobs, Zenobia, Karkanas, Panagiotis, Fisher, Erich C., Herries, Andy I.R., Brown, Kyle, Williams, Hope M., Bernatchez, Jocelyn, Ayalon, Avner, Nilssen, Peter J.

“…Coastal South Africa draws interdisciplinary interests due to the co-occurrence of a rich record for early human behavioral modernity, hyper-diverse vegetation…”
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The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa) by Marean, Curtis W., Bar-Matthews, Miryam, Fisher, Erich, Goldberg, Paul, Herries, Andy, Karkanas, Panagiotis, Nilssen, Peter J., Thompson, Erin

“…Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (PP13B) has provided the earliest archaeological evidence for the exploitation of marine shellfish, along with very early evidence for…”
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The Analysis of Cutmarks on Archaeofauna: A Review and Critique of Quantification Procedures, and a New Image-Analysis GIS Approach by Abe, Yoshiko, Marean, Curtis W., Nilssen, Peter J., Assefa, Zelalem, Stone, Elizabeth C.

“…Zooarchaeologists utilize a diverse set of approaches for quantifying cutmark frequencies. The least quantitative method for cutmark analysis relies on…”
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Estimating the Minimum Number of Skeletal Elements (MNE) in Zooarchaeology: A Review and a New Image-Analysis GIS Approach by Marean, Curtis W., Abe, Yoshiko, Nilssen, Peter J., Stone, Elizabeth C.

“…Most zooarchaeologists employ some type of derived measure of skeletal element abundance in their analyses of faunal data. The minimum number of individuals…”
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The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa): The Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle¨Point Site 13B, a Coastal Cave near Mossel Bay (Western Cape Province, South Africa) by MAREAN, Curtis W, BAR-MATTHEWS, Miryam, FISHER, Erich, GOLDBERG, Paul, HERRIES, Andy, KARKANAS, Panagiotis, NILSSEN, Peter J, THOMPSON, Erin

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