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Article: The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey.(Research)(Report)
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- March 1, 2009
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Introduction
Some of the most enduring questions in palaeoanthropology concern evidence for the repeated expansions of genes, populations and/or cultural practices from sub-Saharan Africa into Eurasia. The initial dispersals of Pliocene hominins and the dispersal of anatomically modern humans during the Upper Pleistocene are the best known examples, but not the only ones. For instance, some researchers hypothesise that a distinct hominin dispersal event was associated with the spread of developed Mode 2/Acheulean technologies with symmetrical handaxes and flake cleavers into Eurasia (Carbonell et al. 1999; Goren-Inbar et al. 2000), whereas other investigators ...