Stone Age or Lower and Middle Paleolithic Period

The Stone Age begins in Africa with the first anatomically modern humans, perhaps as early as 200,000 years ago; and the first Stone Age sites outside of Africa begins in the middle east about 100,000 years ago; these are followed (fairly arbitrarily) by the Upper Paleolithic of about 40,000 years ago.

Desert Kites
One of the earliest methods of communal hunting are desert kites, an ancient hunting technique of building stone walls to herd animals to slaughter.

Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex
The Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex (also known as Acheulo-Yabrudian or AYCC) is what archaeologists call the period between the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods in the Levant.

Homo: a brief description of our family
A genus (not necessarily a genius) of animal.

Shell Beads and Behavioral Modernity
The transition to human behavioral modernity took many hundreds of thousands of years. One of the key pieces of evidence for the blossoming of human intelligence and creativity is shell beads. This photo essay examines the human transition, and the role that shell beads played in that transition.

Jabrudian Industries
The name given by archaeologists to a stone flake technology produced by Near Eastern hominids between the Lower and Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) period, ca. 180,000 BP

Hominin
Over the last few years, the word ‘hominin’ has crept into the public news stories about our human ancestors. This is not a misspelling for hominid; this reflects an evolutionary change in the understanding of what it means to be human.

James Helmer's Bibliography
James Helmer's bibliography of Hunter-Gatherer archaeology.

Hominid
Hominid is a general term used consistently by archaeologists and paleontologists for humans and any member of the species of animal we are most closely evolved from.

SARC: Stone Age Reference Collection
Developed at the University of Oslo, this is a teaching collection of information about stone-tool production technology. (under reconstruction July 2010)

Yatsugatake Palaeolithic Research Group
Conducts research on paleolithic sites throughout Japan. Information on several past and present investigations.

Qesem Cave (Israel)
Qesem Cave is a karst cave located 12 km from the Mediterranean Sea in Israel. Its deposits include artifacts dated to the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex, transitional between the Lower and Middle Paleolithic.

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