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Paola Villa

Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder

Publications -  66
Citations -  5663

Paola Villa is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Middle Paleolithic & Middle Stone Age. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 61 publications receiving 5135 citations. Previous affiliations of Paola Villa include University of Bordeaux & University of the Witwatersrand.

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Breakage patterns of human long bones

Paola Villa, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1991 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of fracture morphologies and fragmentation indices for distinguishing green from postdepositional bone breakage is assessed using three assemblages of human bone broken by unique and well known causes, i.e., marrow fracturing of green bone, sediment pressure and impact on subfossil bone.
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On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

Wil Roebroeks, +1 more
- 29 Mar 2011 - 
TL;DR: The review of the European evidence suggests that early hominins moved into northern latitudes without the habitual use of fire, and the increase in the number of sites with good evidence of fire throughout the Late Pleistocene shows that European Neandertals had fire management not unlike that documented for Upper Paleolithic groups.
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Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

Francesco d'Errico, +10 more
- 14 Aug 2012 - 
TL;DR: Reappraisal of radiocarbon age estimates through Bayesian modeling, and the identification of key elements of San material culture at Border Cave, places the emergence of modern hunter–gatherer adaptation, as the authors know it, to ∼44,000 y ago.
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Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Rose Cottage Cave

Sylvain Soriano, +2 more
- 01 May 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed technological and typological analysis of several Howiesons Poort (HP) and post-HP assemblages from the well-excavated, well-dated and well-stratified site of Rose Cottage is presented.
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Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa

Vincent Mourre, +5 more
- 29 Oct 2010 - 
TL;DR: Replication experiments show that pressure flaking best explains the morphology of lithic artifacts recovered from the ~75-ka Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa.