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On the Status of the Boar Tooth Artifact from the Backdirt of Vogelherd 论沃格尔赫德土中野猪牙器物的地位

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31005

Nicholas Conard, Benjamin Schürch, Fabian Haack, Sibylle Wolf

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Tracking Early Hominin Foraging Behavior at DS Site (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge) DS遗址(Olduvai Gorge I床)早期人类觅食行为的追踪

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31002

Lucia Cobo-Sanchez

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Die Jahresexkursion der GfU nach Nord- und Mitteldeutschland 法鲁分裂

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31007

Karin Weiss-Wrana, Sabine Echterbecker

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Where are the Immigrants? Questions about the Demographic Underpinnings of Late Pleistocene Cultural Changes in Western Europe 移民在哪里?关于西欧晚更新世文化变化的人口基础问题

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31004

Michael Jochim

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New Perspectives on the Behavioral Patterns of Early Modern Humans from the Japanese Islands 日本群岛早期现代人行为模式的新视角

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31003

Takuya Yamaoka, Nobuyuki Ikeya, Motoki Miyoshi, Jun Takakura

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Renaturierung des Tagebaus Schöningen mit verschiedenen Megaherbivoren in Form von unterschiedlichen Landschafts- und Klimawandelszenarien 用不同的大型草木生存异地和气候变化的情景

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31006

Leonie Turnwald

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Jahresbericht der Vorsitzenden der GfU für 2022 2022年gu主席年度报告

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31008

Sibylle Wolf

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Laudation: Dr. Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Twenty-fourth Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology 赞誉:Lucía Cobo-Sánchez博士，第24届<s:1>宾根早期史前和第四纪生态学奖获得者

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.31001

Miriam Noël Haidle

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Vorwort / Foreword 前言 / 序言

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2022.3100v

Michael Bolus, Nicholas Conard

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Der abenteuerliche Weg der Vogelherd-figurinen – von ihrer auffindung bis heute 鸟儿舍林的冒险路线从他们的位置一直延伸到今天

Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2021.30006

Sibylle Wolf, Benjamin Schürch, Jens A. Frick, M. Seifert

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