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Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

, 2011
Ranging and residence patterns among early hominins have been indirectly inferred from morphology, stone-tool sourcing, referential models and phylogenetic models.
Lee-Thorp, J A, le Roux, Petrus J., Sandi R. Copeland, de Ruiter, D J, Richards, Michael P., Sponheimer, Matt, de Ruiter, D., Richards, M. ; https://orcid.org/, Matt Sponheimer, le Roux, P., Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Grimes, V, Copeland, S. ; https://orcid.org/, de Ruiter, Darryl J., Copeland, Sandi R, Codron, Daryl, Lee-Thorp, Julia A., Daryl Codron, Copeland, Sandi R., Michael P. Richards, Codron, D, Sponheimer, M., Vaughan Grimes, Sponheimer, M, Copeland, S R, Petrus J. le Roux, Richards, M P, Grimes, Vaughan, Lee-Thorp, J., Grimes, V. ; https://orcid.org/, Codron, D., Darryl J. de Ruiter, le Roux, P J   +32 more
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Dental enamel hypoplasia and intra‐tooth isotope records as indicators of physiological stress and environmental variability in Early Pleistocene hippopotamids from Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Enamel hypoplasia results from temporary disruptions of enamel deposition during tooth development. It is widely used as an indicator of physiological stress in archeological and paleontological contexts; yet, its relationship with environmental conditions during tooth formation remains poorly constrained.
Giuseppe Briatico, Denis Geraads, Rita T. Melis, Margherita Mussi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus. [PDF]

J Anat
Knuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan‐Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the carpals of knuckle‐walking taxa appear relatively specialized.
Hunter LE, Tocheri MW, Orr CM, Patel BA, Alemseged Z.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Social Behavior of Early Hominins [PDF]

International Journal of Primatology, 2012
Interest in the evolution of human behavior has always featured large in evolutionary biology, challenging the imaginations not just of paleoanthropologists and archeologists, but also of virtually any scientific discipline that touches on human evolution.
openaire   +1 more source

Let's Talk About Bone Cylinders. Taphonomy of Carnivores and Humans

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTBone cylinders are a distinctive structure predominantly produced by durophagous carnivoran species during the consumption of long bones, in which the diaphyseal canal remains intact while both epiphyses are removed or consumed. This study evaluates the significance of this morphology, traditionally attributed to extant and extinct hyena ...
Darío Herranz‐Rodrigo
wiley   +1 more source

Expert cognition in the production sequence of Acheulian cleavers at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel: A lithic and cognitive analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Stone cleavers are one of the most distinctive components of the Acheulian toolkit. These tools were produced as part of a long and complex reduction sequence and they provide indications for planning and remarkable knapping skill.
Gadi Herzlinger, Thomas Wynn, Naama Goren-Inbar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird, Julia Galway‐Witham, Chris Stringer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dental microwear differences between eastern and southern African fossil bovids and hominins

South African Journal of Science, 2016
Dental microwear has proven to be a valuable tool for reconstructing diets of fossil vertebrates. However, recent studies have suggested that the pattern of microscopic scratches and pits on teeth may be more reflective of environmental grit than of food
Peter S. Ungar, Jessica R. Scott, Christine M. Steininger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source