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The Worlds Oldest Spears

http://www.michael-warzitz.de/speere/

400,000bp Lower Palaeolithic hunting station of Homo erectus has produced not only thousands of well-preserved mammal remains and eight wooden spears.

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Struggling artists of the Ice Age

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba6/ba6feat.html#pettitt

An article that argues that Paleolithic cave art is a depiction of human and animal relationships in prehistory.

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Reflections on the Style-Function Debate

http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/debate.html

Summary of the style-versus-function debate regarding Paleolithic stone tools. Includes references.

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Pleistocene Mammals

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pinpleist.html

A image gallery of megafauna on display at the Russian Paleontological Institute.

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Old Stone Age

http://www.oldstoneage.com/

Shannon McPherron (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) and Harold Dibble (University of Pennsylvania) report on research at several sites in Europe and Abydos in Egypt.

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In This Dark Cavern Thy Burying Place

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba26/ba26feat.html#cavern

An article by Andrew Chamberlain from British Archaeology discussing Paleolithic mortuary practices in Great Britain.

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Ice Ages

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/

A guide to the climatic changes that occurred during the Paleolithic.

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From Art and Tools Came Human Origins

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba42/ba42feat.html#barham

Larry Barham reports in British Archaeology that evidence of modern human behaviour 200,000 years old may have been found in Africa.

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Bradshaw Foundation: Ice Age Art

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/sculpture/

Article on the figurines and sculptures of prehistoric Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic prehistory era.

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And Then Came Clothing and Speech

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba19/ba19feat.html#roberts

Mark Roberts discusses why was Europe colonised by hominids half a million years ago. Published in the Journal of British Archaeology in 1996.

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