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Papers from the British Academy Lucy to Language: Archaeology of the Social Brain. Seminar Series on Palaeolithic Visual Display.

open access: yes, 2012
ContentsThe Importance of Conveying Visual Information in Acheulean Society. The Background to the Visual Display HypothesisDr John McNabb, Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO), Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton ...
Grove, Matt   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Hominin Brain Evolution:The Only Way Is Up?

open access: yes, 2018
Traditional views of human brain evolution focus on increases in brain size. However, the brain endocast of Homo naledi adds evidence that brain re-organisation played a significant role in hominin evolution.
Montgomery, Stephen
core   +1 more source

African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
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.
Laura E. Hunter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Arboreal signals in the skeletal proportions of the Gorilla foot

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Differences in arboreal behavior among gorilla populations are correlated with the relative lengths of their pedal digital elements. Bwindi gorillas have third and fourth metatarsals relatively shorter than those of more arboreal western lowland gorillas and longer than those of more terrestrial Virunga gorillas, while hallux and proximal phalangeal ...
Elliot G. Greiner   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
wiley   +1 more source

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
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
wiley   +1 more source

Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
wiley   +1 more source

WHAT ONCE WAS SHALL BE AGAIN: PALAEOLITHIC BIFACES AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF GIV'AT RABI EAST

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary Giv'at Rabi East is a Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site located in northern Israel, interpreted as a flint workshop. One area has been spatially identified as a ‘biface locality’; it is characterized by the presence of finished axes and preforms alongside débitage. Interestingly, Acheulean bifaces have also been recovered from this area.
Ella Assaf
wiley   +1 more source

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