{"id":99,"date":"2013-02-12T12:47:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/cahoseminar\/?p=209"},"modified":"2013-02-12T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:47:14","slug":"caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/","title":{"rendered":"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>20th February (Wednesday)<\/em>
\nDamien Flas<\/strong>
\nFonds National de la Recherche Scientifique<\/a>, Belgium<\/p>\n

“In Terra Incognita. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Central Asia: New data from Uzbekistan”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Central Asia is a vast territory and it is an important region to understand population dynamics during the Pleistocene, notably the issue of the first dispersal of hominins into Asia, the expansion of the Neanderthal population, the Anatomically Modern Human dispersal in Asia and, as shown\u00a0 more recently, the possibility of other populations like the Denisovans. But despite this crucial position, these regions remain much less known than other parts of Eurasia, leaving this territory an alsmost\u00a0terra incognita\u00a0<\/em>of the Palaeolithic studies. In the last years, we developped new excavations at Kulbulak, an important open-air Palaeolithic site in Eastern Uzebkistan. The four campaigns provided a 15 m. deep stratigraphy yielding several Palaeolithic assemblages and the first chronological data for this site. This results, as well as other works made these last years, permit to shed new light on the Palaeolithic of Uzbekistan and Central Asia. It leads us to underscore the importance of blade industries during the Middle Palaeolithic in Central Asia, to question the reality of the “Denticulate Mousterian” described in these regions and to tackle the Early Upper Palaeolithic industry that was sometimes seen as an Asian source of the Aurignacian complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

20th February (Wednesday) Damien Flas Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium “In Terra Incognita. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Central Asia: New data from Uzbekistan” Central Asia is a vast territory and it is an important region to understand population dynamics during the Pleistocene, notably the issue of the first dispersal of hominins into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-for-the-archaeology-of-human-origins","category-social-history-including-human-origins-and-later-prehistory","tag-blog","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"\nCAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14 - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14 - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"20th February (Wednesday) Damien Flas Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium “In Terra Incognita. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Central Asia: New data from Uzbekistan” Central Asia is a vast territory and it is an important region to understand population dynamics during the Pleistocene, notably the issue of the first dispersal of hominins into [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-12T12:47:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\/files\/2013\/02\/s200_damien_flas.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Samuel Griffiths\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Samuel Griffiths\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Samuel Griffiths\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6620a50a23ac944d1bed6283d039a553\"},\"headline\":\"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-12T12:47:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/s200_damien_flas.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Blog\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins\",\"Social history (including human origins and later prehistory)\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/\",\"name\":\"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14 - Archaeology Blogs\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/s200_damien_flas.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-12T12:47:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6620a50a23ac944d1bed6283d039a553\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/s200_damien_flas.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/s200_damien_flas.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/12\\\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/\",\"name\":\"Archaeology Blogs\",\"description\":\"Archaeology Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6620a50a23ac944d1bed6283d039a553\",\"name\":\"Samuel Griffiths\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ff61e5e17bba84b834dd2d38a36a5d7c6662da3f8654f8c291c13aadb3027504?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ff61e5e17bba84b834dd2d38a36a5d7c6662da3f8654f8c291c13aadb3027504?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/ff61e5e17bba84b834dd2d38a36a5d7c6662da3f8654f8c291c13aadb3027504?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Samuel Griffiths\"},\"description\":\"I am a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Southampton and a member of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins. My research is currently concentrating on hominin interaction to climate and environment throughout the Pleistocene. I have become particularly interested with early human behaviour within the wider landscape, looking at habitat change and resource strategies connected. More specifically my Ph.D. research concentrates on the Quaternary record of Jersey and its connection with Northern France, using the paleoenvironmental record from archaeological sites such as La Cotte de St. Brelade and associated geology. This project is supervised by Dr. John McNabb (Advisor Dr. Matt Pope, UCL & QAEJ) and look to tie this evidence in with behavioural evidence associated with lithic analysis.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\\\/archaeology\\\/author\\\/samuel-griffiths\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14 - Archaeology Blogs","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14 - Archaeology Blogs","og_description":"20th February (Wednesday) Damien Flas Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium “In Terra Incognita. Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Central Asia: New data from Uzbekistan” Central Asia is a vast territory and it is an important region to understand population dynamics during the Pleistocene, notably the issue of the first dispersal of hominins into [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/","og_site_name":"Archaeology Blogs","article_published_time":"2013-02-12T12:47:14+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\/files\/2013\/02\/s200_damien_flas.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Samuel Griffiths","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Samuel Griffiths","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/"},"author":{"name":"Samuel Griffiths","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/#\/schema\/person\/6620a50a23ac944d1bed6283d039a553"},"headline":"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14","datePublished":"2013-02-12T12:47:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/"},"wordCount":225,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\/files\/2013\/02\/s200_damien_flas.jpg","keywords":["Blog"],"articleSection":["Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins","Social history (including human origins and later prehistory)"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/","url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/","name":"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14 - Archaeology Blogs","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\/files\/2013\/02\/s200_damien_flas.jpg","datePublished":"2013-02-12T12:47:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/#\/schema\/person\/6620a50a23ac944d1bed6283d039a553"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\/files\/2013\/02\/s200_damien_flas.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/cahoseminars.soton.ac.uk\/files\/2013\/02\/s200_damien_flas.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2013\/02\/12\/caho-seminar-series-2013-02-12-124714\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"CAHO Seminar Series 2013-02-12 12:47:14"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/#website","url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/","name":"Archaeology Blogs","description":"Archaeology Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/#\/schema\/person\/6620a50a23ac944d1bed6283d039a553","name":"Samuel Griffiths","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff61e5e17bba84b834dd2d38a36a5d7c6662da3f8654f8c291c13aadb3027504?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff61e5e17bba84b834dd2d38a36a5d7c6662da3f8654f8c291c13aadb3027504?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ff61e5e17bba84b834dd2d38a36a5d7c6662da3f8654f8c291c13aadb3027504?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Samuel Griffiths"},"description":"I am a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Southampton and a member of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins. My research is currently concentrating on hominin interaction to climate and environment throughout the Pleistocene. I have become particularly interested with early human behaviour within the wider landscape, looking at habitat change and resource strategies connected. More specifically my Ph.D. research concentrates on the Quaternary record of Jersey and its connection with Northern France, using the paleoenvironmental record from archaeological sites such as La Cotte de St. Brelade and associated geology. This project is supervised by Dr. John McNabb (Advisor Dr. Matt Pope, UCL & QAEJ) and look to tie this evidence in with behavioural evidence associated with lithic analysis.","url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/author\/samuel-griffiths\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}