High-altitude “bear caves” provide unique windows into Middle Paleolithic human behavior, often reflecting sporadic Neanderthal occupations in challenging alpine environments. In this study, we prese...

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Human-environment interactions and spatio-temporal organization of the activities are of prime importance to decipher Paleolithic way of life. To addr…

Dalani i Vogël and a piece of stone tool discovered during the excavationsAn international team, coordinated by the National Research Council, Institute of Environmental Geology and Geotechnical Engineering (CNR-IGAG) – and by the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Ferrara, in collaboration with the Institute of Albanian Archaeology, has discovered the first documented Neanderthal site in Albania

The bipolar technique has been widely used across a wide range of prehistoric contexts, from the Lower Pleistocene to the Metal Ages, and is a defining feature of the Uluzzian technocomplex, evident i...