Jacques Jaubert

TL;DR: The dating of annular constructions made of broken stalagmites found deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwest France gives a reliable and replicated age of 176.5 thousand years (±2.1 thousand years), making these edifices among the oldest known well-dated constructionsmade by humans.

TL;DR: Strontium isotope data from sequentially-sampled enamel from three reindeer and a single bison from the late Middle Palaeolithic site of Jonzac, France are presented and it is suggested that they may have been from the same herd, were likely killed around the same point during their seasonal round and may therefore be the product of a single hunting event or a small number of successive hunting events.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the variability in hunted fauna using multivariate statistical analysis of quantitative faunal lists of 148 assemblages from 39 archeological sequences from Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5 through MIS 3.

TL;DR: The zooarchaeological results presented here indicate that reindeer were hunted during a restricted window of time when they were seasonally abundant in the local area near Jonzac, consistent with a pattern of site use by highly mobile hunter-gatherers making frequent, short-term visits.

TL;DR: This period would have witnessed the development of local Middle Paleolithic traditions in the Arabian Peninsula, which suggests more complex settlement dynamics and possible population interactions than commonly inferred by the current models of modern human expansion out of Africa.