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Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age Tibet, 3600–2200 BP

Scientific Reports
Tibetan cultures reflect deeply rooted, regional interactions and diverse subsistence practices across varied high-altitude environments of the Tibetan Plateau.
Xinzhou Chen, Hongliang Lü, Xinyi Liu, Michael D. Frachetti   +3 more
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Female bone physiology resilience in a past Polynesian Outlier community

Scientific Reports, 2022
Remodelling is a fundamental biological process involved in the maintenance of bone physiology and function. We know that a range of health and lifestyle factors can impact this process in living and past societies, but there is a notable gap in bone ...
Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Hallie R. Buckley, Michal Feldman, Lawrence Kiko, Selina Carlhoff, Kathrin Naegele, Emilie Bertolini, Nathalia R. Dias Guimarães, Meg M. Walker, Adam Powell, Cosimo Posth, Rebecca L. Kinaston   +11 more
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Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland

Nature Communications, 2020
European populations underwent strong genetic changes during the Neolithic. Here, Furtwängler et al. provide ancient nuclear and mitochondrial genomic data from the region of Switzerland during the end of the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age that ...
Anja Furtwängler, A. B. Rohrlach, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Luka Papac, Gunnar U. Neumann, Inga Siebke, Ella Reiter, Noah Steuri, Jürgen Hald, Anthony Denaire, Bernadette Schnitzler, Joachim Wahl, Marianne Ramstein, Verena J. Schuenemann, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Albert Hafner, Sandra Lösch, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels, Johannes Krause   +19 more
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Stable isotope data of Neolithic and Eneolithic populations in the Balkans, 6600 to 4000 BC

Data in Brief, 2022
Stable isotopic ratios of carbon and nitrogen performed on collagen and tooth enamel offer invaluable insight into the diet of ancient populations. In the northern Balkans, most of these isotopic data have been collected as auxiliary information of ...
Aurélien Tafani, Cătălin Lazăr, Robert H. Tykot   +2 more
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Author Correction: Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland

Nature Communications, 2020
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Anja Furtwängler, A. B. Rohrlach, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Luka Papac, Gunnar U. Neumann, Inga Siebke, Ella Reiter, Noah Steuri, Jürgen Hald, Anthony Denaire, Bernadette Schnitzler, Joachim Wahl, Marianne Ramstein, Verena J. Schuenemann, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Albert Hafner, Sandra Lösch, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels, Johannes Krause   +19 more
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A Dataset Describing the Manufacturing of Stone Tools Over 3 Million Years

Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2023
This dataset is the product of an attempt to summarize the complexity and variability of tool-making sequences spanning the past 3 million years of hominin evolution.
Jonathan Paige, Charles Perreault
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Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave

Nature Communications
Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the only site known to have been occupied by Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern humans. The cave consists of three chambers (Main, East and South), with the archaeological assemblages and remains of hominins, fauna ...
Zenobia Jacobs, Elena I. Zavala, Bo Li, Kieran O’Gorman, Michael V. Shunkov, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Vladimir A. Uliyanov, Paul Goldberg, Alexander K. Agadjanian, Sergei K. Vasiliev, Frank Brink, Stéphane Peyrégne, Viviane Slon, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Richard G. Roberts   +17 more
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Comparative regional stable isotope analysis reveals fluctuations in millet consumption during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Eastern Adriatic

Scientific Reports
This study presents the largest regional-scale stable isotope investigation of human and faunal remains spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2400–100 BCE) in the Eastern Adriatic to date. New δ 13C and δ 15N data from 51 individuals were integrated with
Valentina Martinoia, Mario Carić, Boris Čargo, Martina Čelhar, Natalija Čondić, Slavko Galiot, Domagoj Perkić, Dinko Tresić Pavičić, Marina Ugarković Džafić, Morana Vuković, Joško Zaninović, Urszula Zientek-Androulaki, Emily Zavodny, Sarah McClure, Mario Novak   +14 more
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Lipari (Aeolian Islands) Obsidian in the Late Neolithic. Artifacts, Supply and Function

Open Archaeology, 2019
This study focuses on the Neolithic, particularly on the emergence and development of the Diana Culture in the Aeolian Islands. Since the 1950s, the archaeological excavations unearthed parts of a settlement in a plain near the sea, contrada Diana in ...
Martinelli Maria Clara, Tykot Robert H., Vianello Andrea   +2 more
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Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains

Scientific Reports
Throughout history, humans have had a complex relationship with lions, both reverencing and fearing them. Interactions between Neanderthals and cave lions (Panthera spelaea) remain poorly documented due to the scarcity of direct evidence.
Grégory Abrams, Patrick Auguste, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Éva Halbrucker, Kévin Di Modica, Camille Pironneau, Tristan Dedrie, Carlo Meloro, Valentin Fischer, Hervé Bocherens, Yves Vanbrabant, Fabrice Bray   +12 more
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