Abstract
The northern latitudes of Eurasia were inhabited temporarily, during favorable, warmer periods since 1 Ma ago with a considerable transition from Mode 1 (Oldowan) or Mode 2 (Acheulean) to microlithic technology and introducing new and more effective composite tools. Until recent years, archaeologists believed that such technology occurred almost exclusively during the Mesolithic and Late Palaeolithic (Mode 5), in the form of small stone inserts held by wooden or bone hafts, producing composite tools. A significant spatial, chronological and ecological variability of Lower Palaeolithic microlithic assemblages suggests that they developed as a result of the adaptation to local environment, possibly temperate and wooded, in different areas from North-Eastern China to Northern Europe, parallel to Mode 1 and Mode 2 in southern and western part of Eurasia.
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Burdukiewicz, J.M. (2009). Lower Palaeolithic Transitions in the Northern Latitudes of Eurasia. In: Camps, M., Chauhan, P. (eds) Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76487-0_11
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