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An updated age for the Xujiayao hominin from the Nihewan Basin,North China: Implications for Middle Pleistocene human evolution inEast Asia

open access: yes, 2017
The Xujiayao site in the Nihewan Basin (North China) is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in East Asia. Twenty Homo fossils, which were previously assigned to an archaic Homo sapiens group, have been excavated along with more than 30,000 lithic
Xu,XW(Xu,Xinwen)   +10 more
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The Origins of Fashion

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
wiley   +1 more source

Edge Sharpness Does Not Vary Between Palaeolithic Flake Technologies, With the Possible Exception of Levallois Débitage

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 674-686, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Investigating why hominins adopted particular flake technologies during the Mid‐to‐Late Pleistocene is essential to understanding patterns of lithic innovation. This period witnessed the emergence of Levallois technologies (~350–250 ka) and later blades, each “replacing” earlier forms.
Anna Mika, Alastair Key
wiley   +1 more source

BRINGING BACK FAMILIAR FORMS: RECYCLING QUINA SCRAPERS AT THE LATE LOWER PALAEOLITHIC QESEM CAVE, ISRAEL

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 250-277, August 2026.
Summary This study presents a technological analysis of 18 old patinated scrapers and spalls, mostly of Quina technology, that were recycled into new scrapers of the same type at the Late Lower Palaeolithic site of Qesem Cave, Israel (420–200 kyr). Recycling scrapers into the same Quina and demi‐Quina types offers a rare, controlled opportunity to ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion: what can we learn from landscapes of fear and primate terrestriality?

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
A defining feature of the hominin clade is bipedality, often parcelled together with terrestriality. However, there is increasing evidence of locomotor diversity, both within the hominin clade and amongst the Miocene apes that came before them.
Philippa Hammond   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Menopause Averted a Midlife Energetic Crisis With Help From Older Dependent Children and Parents: A Simulation Study

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives The grandmother hypothesis proposes that ancestral women ceased reproduction midlife to instead provision their grandchildren. An alternative “two‐sex” account proposes that the high energetic burden of caring for slow‐developing offspring was met with biparental investment.
Edward H. Hagen
wiley   +1 more source

Novel Motor Behaviors and the Evolution of the Hominin Brain

open access: yes, 2019
Brain size scales predictably with body size for most placental mammals. However, humans have brains that are about seven times larger than expected for their body size, with total brain volume being about 90% cerebrum and about10% cerebellum.
Miller, Shawn Dee
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New hominin fossils from Kanapoi, Kenya, and the mosaic evolution of canine teeth in early hominins

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2012
Whilst reduced size, altered shape and diminished sexual dimorphism of the canine-premolar complex are diagnostic features of the hominin clade, little is known about the rate and timing of changes in canine size and shape in early hominins. The earliest
Fredrick Manthi, J. Plavcan, Carol Ward
doaj  

Reply to: Modelling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data

open access: yesNature Ecology & Evolution, 2022
Hans P. Püschel   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Revisiting Water and Hominin Evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
For many investigators, the rôle of water in the evolution of the Hominini refers to the development of a number of anatomical and physiological features, which hominins are thought to share with water-adapted animals. However, in the last dozen years, there has been emphasis on other ways in which water, and the proximity to water, have been probable ...
openaire   +1 more source

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