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ArticlePloS one2021

Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia).

Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Philip Glauberman, Vincent Ollivier, Tobias Lauer, Rhys Timms, Ellery Frahm, Alexander Brittingham, Benno Triller, Lutz Kindler, Monika V Knul and 16 more

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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26 authors.

Ariel Malinsky-BullerMONREPOS, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Neuwied, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0447-6949
Philip GlaubermanInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.
Vincent OllivierCNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Tobias LauerDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Rhys TimmsCentre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Ellery FrahmYale Initiative for the Study of Ancient Pyrotechnology, Council on Archaeological Studies, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
Alexander BrittinghamDepartment of Anthropology, Old World Archaeology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.
Benno TrillerInstitute of Ancient Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
Lutz KindlerMONREPOS, Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Neuwied, Germany.
Monika V KnulDepartment of Archaeology, Anthropology and Geography, University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom.
Masha KrakovskyIsrael Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel.
Sebastian JoanninInstitut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, Montpellier, France.
Michael T HrenDepartment of Geoscience, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.
Olivier BellierCNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Alexander A ClarkCentre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Simon P E BlockleyCentre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Dimidry ArakelyanInstitute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.
João MarreirosTraCEr, Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments at MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, RGZM, Neuwied, Germany.
Eduardo PaixacoTraCEr, Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments at MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, RGZM, Neuwied, Germany.
Ivan CalandraTraCEr, Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments at MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, RGZM, Neuwied, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3816-6359
Robert GhukasyanThe Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
David NoraICArEHB-Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
Nadav NirDepartment of Earth Sciences, Physical Geography, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Ani AdigyozalyanInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.
Hayk HaydosyanInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.
Boris GasparyanInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Armenian highlands encompasses rugged and environmentally diverse landscapes and is characterized by a mosaic of distinct ecological niches and large temperature gradients. Strong seasonal fluctuations in resource availability along topographic gradients likely prompted Pleistocene hominin groups to adapt by adjusting their mobility strategies. However, the role that elevated landscapes played in hunter-gatherer settlement systems during the Late Pleistocene (Middle Palaeolithic [MP]) remains poorly understood. At 1640 m above sea level, the MP site of Kalavan 2 (Armenia) is ideally positioned for testing hypotheses involving elevation-dependent seasonal mobility and subsistence strategies. Renewed excavations at Kalavan 2 exposed three main occupation horizons and ten additional low densities lithic and faunal assemblages. The results provide a new chronological, stratigraphical, and paleoenvironmental framework for hominin behaviors between ca. 60 to 45 ka. The evidence presented suggests that the stratified occupations at Kalavan 2 locale were repeated ephemerally most likely related to hunting in a high-elevation within the mountainous steppe landscape.

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AltitudeHominidaeSeasonsAnimal MigrationAnimalsArchaeologyArmeniaArtifactsFossilsHistory, AncientHumansOccupationsTechnology

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PMCPMC7861461

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