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1. Palaeolakes, caves and settlement during the Pleistocene and Holocene around Tsakhiurtyn Hundi, Mongolia

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Masojc, Miroslaw, Gunchinsuren, Byambaa, Szykulski, Jozef, Michalec, Grzegorz, Dashzeveg, Bazargur, Sikora, Rafal, Odsuren, Davaakhuu, Bobrowski, Przemyslaw, Jordeczka, Maciej, Wojcik, Antoni, Galas, Andrzej, Szmit, Marcin, Gankhuyag, Odpurev, Osypihska, Marta, Namjilmaa, Enkhtaivan, and David, Eva

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Hunting and gathering societies, Caves -- Discovery and exploration
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The authors present results from a new research project focusing on the prehistory of the area surrounding a vast flint outcrop in Mongolia, called Tsakhiurtyn Hundi, in the borderland between the Gobi-Altai Mountains and Gobi Desert. They present the discovery of a cave and the results of its exploration, confirming its use by Pleistocene hunter-gatherers. Keywords: Mongolia, Palaeolithic, palaeoenvironment, Khutul Usny Cave, Tsakhiurtyn Hundi, Introduction Tsakhiurtyn Hundi (Flint Valley), located about 700km south of Ulaanbaatar (the capital of Mongolia), is one of the most extensive prehistoric sites of Central Asia (Figure 1A & B). […]

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2024
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2. A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan.

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Michalec, Grzegorz, Andrieux, Eric, Kim, Ju Yong, Sohn, Young Kwan, Cendrowska, Marzena, Ehlert, Maciej, Armitage, Simon J., Moska, Piotr, Szmit, Marcin, Nassr, Ahmed, and Masojć, Mirosław

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MESOLITHIC Period, THERMOLUMINESCENCE dating, TRACE analysis, MICROSCOPY, PRESERVATION of materials, STONE Age
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This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate human activity in this area during the Marine Isotope Stage 5 period (MIS 5), approximately 90 kya. Discussion concerning the affiliation of both analyzed inventories will be provided, including another MSA site from the EDAR area, where an assemblage dated to MIS 6/5e does not have technological features known from other technocomplexes in the eastern Sahara region (EDAR 135). Microscopic analysis of traces of tool use for the EDAR 155 assemblage shows the high impact of post-depositional (aeolian) processes on the state of preservation of lithic material. Sites EDAR 134 and 155 provide evidence for hominin activity during the late Pleistocene within an area only episodically accessible, due to arid conditions prevailing in the Saharan deserts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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6. The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135-a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan

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Ehlert, Maciej, Kim, Ju Yong, Sohn, Young Kwan, Cendrowska, Marzena, Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna, Andrieux, Eric, Armitage, Simon J., Michalec, Grzegorz, Dreczko, Ewa, Alkhidir, Hassan Mustafa, Szmit, Marcin, Masojc, Miroslaw, Ehlert, Maciej, Kim, Ju Yong, Sohn, Young Kwan, Cendrowska, Marzena, Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna, Andrieux, Eric, Armitage, Simon J., Michalec, Grzegorz, Dreczko, Ewa, Alkhidir, Hassan Mustafa, Szmit, Marcin, and Masojc, Miroslaw

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Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic artefacts coming from dated layers preserved in their original stratigraphic position are still rare in Northeast Africa in general and in Sudan in particular. This paper aims to present the results of technological and functional analyses of an assemblage coming from a stratigraphic context, i.e. the upper level of the EDAR (Eastern Desert - Atbara River) 135 site, discovered in an abandoned gold mining pit in the Sudanese Eastern Desert, approximately 70 km east of the town of Atbara. The assemblage, which is based on locally available quartz and rhyolite, comes from a layer bracketed by OSL dates of 116 +/- 13 and 125 +/- 11 kya. Such dating places it within Marine Isotope Stage 5e-5d. Analysis of the assemblage revealed several characteristics that seem to set it apart from other MSA Northeast African inventories. Among these, the dominance of simple, non-predetermined core reduction strategies and expedient tool types, coupled with the lack of traces of Nubian Levallois technique, are the most conspicuous. Micro-traces of use on animal and plant matter were preserved on some of the tools. EDAR 135 is part of a newly discovered complex of sites that confirms the presence of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins along one of the possible routes out of Africa towards Eurasia.

Published
2022

7. The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan

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Ehlert, Maciej, primary, Kim, Ju Yong, additional, Sohn, Young Kwan, additional, Cendrowska, Marzena, additional, Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna, additional, Andrieux, Eric, additional, Armitage, Simon J., additional, Michalec, Grzegorz, additional, Dreczko, Ewa, additional, Alkhidir, Hassan Mustafa, additional, Szmit, Marcin, additional, and Masojć, Mirosław, additional

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2022
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8. A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan)

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Michalec, Grzegorz, primary, Cendrowska, Marzena, additional, Andrieux, Eric, additional, Armitage, Simon J., additional, Ehlert, Maciej, additional, Kim, Ju Yong, additional, Sohn, Young Kwan, additional, Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna, additional, Moska, Piotr, additional, Szmit, Marcin, additional, and Masojć, Mirosław, additional

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2021
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9. Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia

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Masojć, Mirosław, primary, Nassr, Ahmed, additional, Kim, Ju Yong, additional, Ehlert, Maciej, additional, Michalec, Grzegorz, additional, Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna, additional, Sohn, Young Kwan, additional, Andrieux, Eric, additional, Armitage, Simon J., additional, Szmit, Marcin, additional, Kim, Jin Cheul, additional, Kim, Ji Sung, additional, Cendrowska, Marzena, additional, Dreczko, Ewa, additional, Moska, Piotr, additional, Kim, Kyeong Ja, additional, and Choi, Yire, additional

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2021
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10. The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan

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Masojć, Mirosław, primary, Kim, Ju Yong, additional, Krupa-Kurzynowska, Joanna, additional, Sohn, Young Kwan, additional, Ehlert, Maciej, additional, Michalec, Grzegorz, additional, Cendrowska, Marzena, additional, Andrieux, Eric, additional, Armitage, Simon J., additional, Szmit, Marcin, additional, Dreczko, Ewa, additional, Kim, Jin Cheul, additional, Kim, Ji Sung, additional, Lee, Gwang-Soo, additional, Moska, Piotr, additional, and Jadain, Modather Abdalla, additional

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2021
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