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Quaternary Environments and HumansWe can see an increasing consumption of meat together with the corresponding behavioral adaptations in early hominins, such as Homo erectus. This new development was driven by one or more behavioral adaptations, such as a shift to a higher-quality diet ...
Jan-Olaf Reschke +2 more
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Talking About Tools: Did Early Pleistocene Hominins Have a Protolanguage?
, 2020 This article addresses the question of whether early Pleistocene hominins are plausibly viewed as having possessed a protolanguage, that is, a communication system exemplifying some but not all of the distinctive features of fully modern human language ...
Planer, Ronald
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The ‘Out of Africa’ model that has dominated palaeoanthropology for nearly three decades was originally based on five elements: a recent ancestry to human populations; an African origin for the ancestral population; limited or no gene flow among archaic hominins and no admixture between modern humans and Neanderthals; a marked difference between the ...
Robert A. Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr
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Did Early Pleistocene hominins control hammer strike angles when making stone tools?
, 2023 In the study of Early Pleistocene stone artifacts, researchers have made considerable progress in reconstructing the technical decisions of hominins by examining various aspects of lithic technology, such as reduction sequences, hammer selection ...
Jonathan S Reeves (20269065) +4 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski +2 more
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Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia.
PLoS ONE, 2018 Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare.
Ceri Shipton +10 more
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Investigating relationships among strontium, barium, and seasonality in wild baboons
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Geochemical profiles of Australopithecus africanus and baboon teeth show fluctuating trace elements, possibly reflecting seasonal diets. Here we use laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometric measurements of calcium‐normalized strontium and barium ratios (Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca) and ion microprobe analyses of oxygen isotopes (δ18O ...
Maya Bharatiya +12 more
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Trace Element Patterns in Juvenile Wild Chimpanzee Dentitions
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trace elements are used to infer mammalian early‐life diets, environmental toxins, dispersal patterns, stress histories, and weaning ages. Here, we employ laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to reveal elemental patterns in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.
Tanya M. Smith +5 more
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A hypothesis of ape and human evolution based on comparative biology and plate tectonics
Academia BiologyThere is broad consensus among paleoanthropologists that extant African hominids (Pan and Gorilla) as well as hominins (our direct ancestors following the split from Pan, i.e., chimpanzee and bonobo) originated in Africa.
Marc Verhaegen +4 more
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Endurance running and its relevance to scavenging by early hominins
, 2013 It has been argued that endurance running ability may have been important in hominin evolution, giving hominins an enhanced ability to scavenge by allowing them to reach carcasses before other terrestrial vertebrate scavengers.
Wilkinson, David, Ruxton, Graeme Douglas
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