Lapa do Picareiro (Site Name Keyword)
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Raw data from the 2014 excavation using a Sokkia CX total station.
2015 total station data (2015)
Raw data from the 2015 excavation using two Sokkia CX total stations and EDWIN software.
2015 total station data (2015)
Raw data from the 2015 excavation using two Sokkia CX total stations and EDWIN software. This file recorded data using a Surface Pro 3.
2016 total station data (2016)
Raw data from the 2016 excavation using two Sokkia CX total stations and EDWIN software. This file recorded data using a Trimble Nomad.
2016 total station data (2016)
Raw data from the 2016 excavation using two Sokkia CX total stations and EDWIN software. This file recorded data using a Nautiz X8.
2019 Total Station data (2019)
Total station data points for artifacts, bones, charcoal, features, etc. from the 2019 excavation season at Lapa do Picareiro.
Aerial view of the site (2015)
This image was taken with a GoPro 3 mounted to a DJI Phantom 3. The view is from the north looking south. Backdirt is visible in the lower right.
Entrance to the cave (2015)
Mouth of the cave.
Human ecodynamics of late Neanderthal survival and anatomically modern human expansion at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic Transition, Lapa do Picareiro, Portugal
With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Jonathan Haws (University of Louisville) and Dr. Michael Benedetti (University of North Carolina Wilmington) are leading a multi-year study of Neanderthal extinction and replacement by anatomically modern humans in central Portugal. The project brings together an international team to recover high-resolution archaeological, geological and paleoecological records from the excavation of Lapa do Picareiro, a cave in central Portugal. Our...
Inquiry into the Origins of Modern Human Distributions
Since their discovery over 150 years ago, Neanderthals have captured the imagination of scientists and the general public. Researchers have been trying to understand their life ways and the processes through which they disappeared. Archaeology and the earth sciences are particularly well placed to address this dilemma because both investigate processes that act over deep time. Within this broad context, Dr. Jonathan Haws (University of Louisville) and Dr. Michael Benedetti (University of North...
Plan of Lapa do Picareiro (2015)
Site plan based on 1x1 m alphanumeric grid system.
Total station data-2017 (2017)
Total station data set #1 for 2017
Total station data-2018 (2018)
Total station data from the Nomad data coll
Total station data-2018 (2018)
Raw file from 2018 field season.
View of the site (2015)
View of the excavation from the entrance. We use two total stations, one for each half of the cave.