Francesco d'Errico
University of Bergen
232 Papers
1.1K Citations
Francesco d'Errico is an academic researcher from University of Bergen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Middle Stone Age & Cave. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 231 publications. Previous affiliations of Francesco d'Errico include University of Kansas & George Washington University.
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Papers
Bone and ivory points in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe.
Paola Villa,Francesco d'Errico +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the absence of organic spear armatures in the Middle Paleolithic is not due to a deficiency in the technology of Neandertals but may be tied to the organizational strategies of the hunters and to patterns of game choice and capture.
Revisiting the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal).
João Zilhão,João Zilhão,João Zilhão,Diego E. Angelucci,Diego E. Angelucci,Lee J. Arnold,Francesco d'Errico,Laure Dayet,Martina Demuro,Marianne Deschamps,Marianne Deschamps,Helen Fewlass,Luis Gomes,Beth Linscott,Henrique Matias,Alistair W. G. Pike,Peter Steier,Sahra Talamo,Eva Maria Wild +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an updated overview of the stratigraphy and archaeological content of the underlying Pleistocene succession, whose chronology was refined using radiocarbon and single-grain optically stimulated luminescence dating.
Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa
Lucinda Backwell,Terence S. McCarthy,Lyn Wadley,Zoë Henderson,Christine M. Steininger,Bonita deKlerk,Magali Barré,Michel Lamothe,Brian M. Chase,Brian M. Chase,Stephan Woodborne,George J. Susino,Marion K. Bamford,Christine Sievers,James S. Brink,Lloyd Rossouw,Luca Pollarolo,Gary Trower,Louis Scott,Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico +20 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a multiproxy record of climate change and human occupation at Wonderkrater, a spring and peat mound site situated in the interior of southern Africa.
Homo symbolicus : the dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
Christopher S. Henshilwood,Francesco d'Errico +1 more
- 16 Nov 2011
TL;DR: This book discusses the evolution and the rise of human language, biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language, including language, imagination, and spirituality and the human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour.
Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the migration routes of the first anatomically modern populations colonizing the European territory at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, of their degree of biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity, and of the nature of their contacts with local Neanderthals, and recorded the occurrence of 157 bead types at 98 European Aurignacian sites.