E Hallinan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Hallinan |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Hallinan |
| SIGNATURE | HALLINAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Algarve |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0698-8238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Nubian Spectrum: 3D Geometric Morphometric Perspectives on Levallois Core Reduction at Tweefontein, South Africa
Prepared core technology is a defining feature of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Africa, yet classic preferential Levallois cores are rare in many southern African assemblages. The recent identification of Nubian Levallois cores – a well-defined prepared core strategy – at sites in the South African interior raises broader questions about how current terminologies may be shaping interpretations of Levallois in southern Africa. The open-air site of…
The Southern African Stone Age Site Index (Sassi): A Spatial, Chronological and Contextual Resource for Archaeological Research
Southern Africa possesses a deep archaeological record, spanning more than a million years, which has attracted over a century of research. As a result, it offers one of the densest and most detailed pictures of Stone Age occupation history in Africa. However, certain time periods and regions have featured more prominently in research, particularly the later Middle Stone Age of the coastal and mountain zones. Moreover, the modern emphasis on abso…
Transforming lithic representation: The potential of Reflectance Transformation Imaging for large-scale lithic visualisation
A recommendation of: Julien Looten, Brad Gravina, Xavier Muth, Maxime Villaeys, Jean-Guillaume Bordes Towards a more robust representation of lithic industries in archaeology: a critical review of traditional approaches and modern techniques https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15411558
Quantifying Levallois: A 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology
Levallois technology, a hallmark of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool manufacture, involves sophisticated core reduction strategies that have major implications for understanding human cognitive and technological evolution. However, traditional methods of analysing Levallois cores often fail to capture the nuanced variability in their morphology. This study introduces a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify …
More Than Surface Finds: Nubian Levallois Core Metric Variability and Site Distribution Across Africa and Southwest Asia
Nubian Levallois cores are currently one of the most debated artefact types in Palaeolithic archaeology. Previous work has focused mainly on the definition and technological characteristics of these cores, with discussion of their distribution framed only in qualitative terms. Here, we present the first quantitative spatial analysis of sites with Nubian Levallois cores across the five global regions where they occur. Using modelled Pleistocene co…
A Synthesis and Critical Inventory of Nubian Cores in Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages
Nubian Levallois technology has become a prominent and hotly debated topic in current Palaeolithic discourse, with important arguments surrounding modern human dispersals, cultural interactions and technological innovations resting on the presence of Nubian cores in lithic assemblages. However, not all published instances of Nubian cores fulfil their strict technological criteria, with resultant implications for how their presence in space and ti…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared point cores, ‘Nubian’ later became attached to a widespread technocomplex in the 1990s and in more recent research describes a specific Levallois reduction strategy. In this review, we situate ‘N…
A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa
Southern African Stone Age archaeology and palaeontology in a mining context: The example of Gudrun Corvinus in the diamond mines of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia (1976–1980)
Mining operations in Africa have played a considerable role in the reconstruction of human evolution. These contributions would not have been possible without co-operation between the mining industry, archaeology and palaeontology. However, closer scrutiny of their initially fortuitous relationship reveals limitations and fundamental differences in approach. A compelling case study is that of palaeontologist and archaeologist Gudrun Corvinus, emp…
Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
The Late Pleistocene and Holocene settlement record of southern Africa shows clear discontinuities both through time and across space. While there is considerable variability between different ecological biomes, the sub-continent’s interior arid zones show particularly unstable occupation histories. However, understanding the nature of and reasons for these discontinuities is hampered by substantial spatial gaps in our archaeological knowledge. T…
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex
Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
Southern Africa is an ecologically highly varied region, yet many generalisations about past human behaviour are drawn from rock shelter sites in coastal and montane Fynbos Biome environments. The Tankwa Karoo region offers the opportunity to extend our archaeological knowledge from the well-researched Western Cape into the arid interior Karoo in order to better capture behavioural variability and identify specific adaptations to more marginal co…
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), pp. 136–137
Provisioning Responses to Environmental Change in South Africa’s Winter Rainfall Zone: Mis 5-2
Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa
Stone Age surface assemblages are all too often neglected in favour of stratified, datable cave sequences, thus overlooking important insights into changing behavioural patterns at a broader scale. The Olifants River Valley (Clanwilliam, Western Cape Province, South Africa) presents a rich surface lithic record alongside excavated rockshelter occupations from the early Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA). Surface surveys in the Ol…
Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa
Stone Age surface assemblages are all too often neglected in favour of stratified, datable cave sequences, thus overlooking important insights into changing behavioural patterns at a broader scale. The Olifants River Valley (Clanwilliam, Western Cape Province, South Africa) presents a rich surface lithic record alongside excavated rockshelter occupations from the early Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA). Surface surveys in the Ol…
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex
The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared point cores, ‘Nubian’ later became attached to a widespread technocomplex in the 1990s and in more recent research describes a specific Levallois reduction strategy. In this review, we situate ‘N…
A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa
Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
Southern Africa is an ecologically highly varied region, yet many generalisations about past human behaviour are drawn from rock shelter sites in coastal and montane Fynbos Biome environments. The Tankwa Karoo region offers the opportunity to extend our archaeological knowledge from the well-researched Western Cape into the arid interior Karoo in order to better capture behavioural variability and identify specific adaptations to more marginal co…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
More Than Surface Finds: Nubian Levallois Core Metric Variability and Site Distribution Across Africa and Southwest Asia
Nubian Levallois cores are currently one of the most debated artefact types in Palaeolithic archaeology. Previous work has focused mainly on the definition and technological characteristics of these cores, with discussion of their distribution framed only in qualitative terms. Here, we present the first quantitative spatial analysis of sites with Nubian Levallois cores across the five global regions where they occur. Using modelled Pleistocene co…
Quantifying Levallois: A 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology
Levallois technology, a hallmark of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool manufacture, involves sophisticated core reduction strategies that have major implications for understanding human cognitive and technological evolution. However, traditional methods of analysing Levallois cores often fail to capture the nuanced variability in their morphology. This study introduces a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify …
A Synthesis and Critical Inventory of Nubian Cores in Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages
Nubian Levallois technology has become a prominent and hotly debated topic in current Palaeolithic discourse, with important arguments surrounding modern human dispersals, cultural interactions and technological innovations resting on the presence of Nubian cores in lithic assemblages. However, not all published instances of Nubian cores fulfil their strict technological criteria, with resultant implications for how their presence in space and ti…
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), pp. 136–137
Southern African Stone Age archaeology and palaeontology in a mining context: The example of Gudrun Corvinus in the diamond mines of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia (1976–1980)
Mining operations in Africa have played a considerable role in the reconstruction of human evolution. These contributions would not have been possible without co-operation between the mining industry, archaeology and palaeontology. However, closer scrutiny of their initially fortuitous relationship reveals limitations and fundamental differences in approach. A compelling case study is that of palaeontologist and archaeologist Gudrun Corvinus, emp…
Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa
Stone Age surface assemblages are all too often neglected in favour of stratified, datable cave sequences, thus overlooking important insights into changing behavioural patterns at a broader scale. The Olifants River Valley (Clanwilliam, Western Cape Province, South Africa) presents a rich surface lithic record alongside excavated rockshelter occupations from the early Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA). Surface surveys in the Ol…
Provisioning Responses to Environmental Change in South Africa’s Winter Rainfall Zone: Mis 5-2
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape
Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 54(1), pp. 136–137
Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
Southern Africa is an ecologically highly varied region, yet many generalisations about past human behaviour are drawn from rock shelter sites in coastal and montane Fynbos Biome environments. The Tankwa Karoo region offers the opportunity to extend our archaeological knowledge from the well-researched Western Cape into the arid interior Karoo in order to better capture behavioural variability and identify specific adaptations to more marginal co…
A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa
Southern African Stone Age archaeology and palaeontology in a mining context: The example of Gudrun Corvinus in the diamond mines of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia (1976–1980)
Mining operations in Africa have played a considerable role in the reconstruction of human evolution. These contributions would not have been possible without co-operation between the mining industry, archaeology and palaeontology. However, closer scrutiny of their initially fortuitous relationship reveals limitations and fundamental differences in approach. A compelling case study is that of palaeontologist and archaeologist Gudrun Corvinus, emp…
Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
The Late Pleistocene and Holocene settlement record of southern Africa shows clear discontinuities both through time and across space. While there is considerable variability between different ecological biomes, the sub-continent’s interior arid zones show particularly unstable occupation histories. However, understanding the nature of and reasons for these discontinuities is hampered by substantial spatial gaps in our archaeological knowledge. T…
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex
The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared point cores, ‘Nubian’ later became attached to a widespread technocomplex in the 1990s and in more recent research describes a specific Levallois reduction strategy. In this review, we situate ‘N…
More Than Surface Finds: Nubian Levallois Core Metric Variability and Site Distribution Across Africa and Southwest Asia
Nubian Levallois cores are currently one of the most debated artefact types in Palaeolithic archaeology. Previous work has focused mainly on the definition and technological characteristics of these cores, with discussion of their distribution framed only in qualitative terms. Here, we present the first quantitative spatial analysis of sites with Nubian Levallois cores across the five global regions where they occur. Using modelled Pleistocene co…
A Synthesis and Critical Inventory of Nubian Cores in Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages
Nubian Levallois technology has become a prominent and hotly debated topic in current Palaeolithic discourse, with important arguments surrounding modern human dispersals, cultural interactions and technological innovations resting on the presence of Nubian cores in lithic assemblages. However, not all published instances of Nubian cores fulfil their strict technological criteria, with resultant implications for how their presence in space and ti…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
Transforming lithic representation: The potential of Reflectance Transformation Imaging for large-scale lithic visualisation
A recommendation of: Julien Looten, Brad Gravina, Xavier Muth, Maxime Villaeys, Jean-Guillaume Bordes Towards a more robust representation of lithic industries in archaeology: a critical review of traditional approaches and modern techniques https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15411558
Quantifying Levallois: A 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology
Levallois technology, a hallmark of Middle Palaeolithic stone tool manufacture, involves sophisticated core reduction strategies that have major implications for understanding human cognitive and technological evolution. However, traditional methods of analysing Levallois cores often fail to capture the nuanced variability in their morphology. This study introduces a novel application of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (GM) to quantify …
The Nubian Spectrum: 3D Geometric Morphometric Perspectives on Levallois Core Reduction at Tweefontein, South Africa
Prepared core technology is a defining feature of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Africa, yet classic preferential Levallois cores are rare in many southern African assemblages. The recent identification of Nubian Levallois cores – a well-defined prepared core strategy – at sites in the South African interior raises broader questions about how current terminologies may be shaping interpretations of Levallois in southern Africa. The open-air site of…
The Southern African Stone Age Site Index (Sassi): A Spatial, Chronological and Contextual Resource for Archaeological Research
Southern Africa possesses a deep archaeological record, spanning more than a million years, which has attracted over a century of research. As a result, it offers one of the densest and most detailed pictures of Stone Age occupation history in Africa. However, certain time periods and regions have featured more prominently in research, particularly the later Middle Stone Age of the coastal and mountain zones. Moreover, the modern emphasis on abso…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 works) · Geology (7 works) · Middle Stone Age (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Cape (4 works)