http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=904 Publications de Auteurs Jürgen Richter fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3228 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:53:45 +0100 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:54:01 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=3228 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=2000 The physical and cultural remnants of Neanderthals have been found within a large variety of environmental contexts, and, obviously, there was no Neanderthal standard environment. Despite the fact that Neanderthals are widely regarded as having anatomically adapted to survive under cold climatic conditions, we must probably accept them as potentially ubiquist hominids. Through 100.000 years of Neanderthal (in strict sense) existence, between 130.000 and 30.000 years B.P., their environment changed several times under the influence of major climatic oscillations. A variety of different landscapes all over Europe and the Near East was inhabited and used by Neanderthals. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:05:59 +0100 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:06:05 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=2000 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=901 Since 2009 the German Albanian Palaeolithic project (GAP) examines two open-air and three cave sites in different parts of Albania. The data obtained allow a first assessment of the potentials as well as challenges posed by these archives. While evidence for human occupation in the postglacial period and subsequent Holocene is plentiful, older traces are still scanty. Multiple factors are responsible for this bias of which to mention above all is climatic impact and postglacial landscape modification. Two cave sequences in the northern part of Albania show a reworking or erosion of MIS 3 and older deposits. Disturbance of open-air sites in the coastal lowlands is principally caused by weathering and sediment aggradation. While such observations are important for future research strategies, the preserved Palaeolithic sequences already provide the basis for a robust Palaeolithic database. It bears a rich and well-preserved record of Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations. Our investigations give a first insight into human land-use shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum. We thereby add important data to the growing record of Epigravettian and Mesolithic sites in the wider scope of the Eastern Adriatic. Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:06:52 +0100 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:07:00 +0100 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/3041-5527/index.php?id=901