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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Sterkfontein at 75: review of paleoenvironments, fauna, dating and archaeology from the hominin site of Sterkfontein (Gauteng Province, South Africa).

, 2011
Seventy-five years after Robert Broom’s discovery of the first adult Australopithecus in 1936, the Sterkfontein Caves (Gauteng Province, South Africa) remains one of the richest and most informative fossil hominin sites in the world.
Reynolds, Sally C., Kibii, Job Munuhe, Kibii, JM, Reynolds, Sally Christine   +3 more
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Advanced computer modelling of hominin dispersal from Africa: integrating archaeological and palaeoclimatic simulations

, 2007
The project aim was to develop process-based computer simulations of the dispersal of Homo erectus out of Africa. This involved developing realistic constraints on the patterns of vegetation and the effects of changes in global sea level.
Bruce Sellwood, Steven Mithen, John Hughes, Alan Haywood, Paul Valdes, Sam Smith   +5 more
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Pulsatory volcanism in the Main Ethiopian Rift and its environmental consequences

Communications Earth & Environment
The East African Rift is one of Earth’s largest continental landforms. It is recognized as a critical region for understanding hominin evolution yet has also undergone important transformation through ongoing tectonic and volcanic activity.
Zara Franceschini, Raffaello Cioni, Stéphane Scaillet, Gaëlle Prouteau, Giacomo Corti, Federico Sani, Alessandro Mondanaro, Diletta Frascerra, Abate A. Melaku, Bruno Scaillet, Clive Oppenheimer, Florian Duval   +11 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, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Christine Austin, Manish Arora, Janaína N. Ávila, Esme K. Beamish, Wendy Dirks, Daniel R. Green, Nicole D. Leonard, W. Scott McGraw, Larissa Swedell, Ian S. Williams, Jian‐xin Zhao, Tanya M. Smith   +12 more
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Hominin palaeoecology in Late Pliocene Malawi : first insights from isotopes (13C, 18O) in mammal teeth

, 2011
Carbon-13 and oxygen-18 abundances were measured in large mammal skeletal remains (tooth enamel, dentine and bone) from the Chiwondo Beds in Malawi, which were dated by biostratigraphic correlation to ca. 2.5 million years ago.
Kullmer, Ottmar, Hervé Bocherens, Bocherens, Herv é, Bocherens, Herv, Sandrock, Oliver, Friedemann Schrenk, Schrenk, Friedemann, Ottmar Kullmer, Oliver Sandrock   +8 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, Manish Arora, Maya Bharatiya, Nicole Leonard, Jian‐xin Zhao, Christine Austin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language [PDF]

, 2015
Research supported in part by an ERC Advanced Grant to K.N.L. (EVOCULTURE, ref: 232823) and grants to N.T.U. from the British Academy (Centenary Project ‘Lucy to Language: the Archaeology of the Social Brain’) and the Leverhulme Trust (ECF 0298).Hominin ...
Lewis, H., Lala, Kevin, Rendell, L.E., Street, S.E., Chouinard-Thuly, L., Lewis, H. M., Kearney, R., Chouinard-Thuly, Laura, Uomini, N.T., Withen, Andrew, Morgan, Thomas, de la Torre, I., Morgan, T., Morgan, T.J.H., Evans, C., Rendell, L. E., Whiten, A., Laland, K. N., Lewis, H.M., Rendell, Luke, Uomini, N. T., Rendell, L., Laland, K.N., Street, S., Morgan, T. J. H., Street, S. E., Torre Sainz, Ignacio de la, Cross, C., Laland, K., Cross, C. P., Cross, C.P., Uomini, N. ; https://orcid.org/   +31 more
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Ecological drivers of Pleistocene Hominin and Faunal dispersal across Southeast Asia (EPHSEA 2022) workshop

, 2023
Southeast Asia is critical for broad studies of human evolution because the region yields one of the highest diversities of Pleistocene hominin species.
Suraprasit, Kantapon, Louys, Julien
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