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Functional Morphology of the Scaphoid in Extant African Apes, Humans and Fossil Hominins [PDF]

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The morphology of the hominoid scaphoid has played a key role in functional and evolutionary hypotheses related to the emergence of hominin bipedalism and tool use. However, the scaphoid's complex morphology is challenging to comparatively analyze via traditional 2D linear measurements.
Nadine G. Steer, Ameline Bardo, Thomas W. Davies, Antonio Rosas, Matthew M. Skinner, Tracy L. Kivell   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Marie‐Helene Moncel, Carolina Cucart‐Mora, Marta Arzarello, Nick Ashton, Javier Baena, Deborah Barsky, Ignacio de la Torre, Nena Galanidou, Paula García‐Medrano, Christine Hertler, Gadi Herzlinger, Thomas Ingicco, Hao Li, Dongdong Ma, Marina Mosquera, Andreu Ollé, Shanti Pappu, Shuwen Pei, Chun Tian, Wei Wang, Christopher J. Bae   +20 more
wiley   +2 more sources

New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus [PDF]

Nature Communications
The African Early Pleistocene is a time of evolutionary change and techno-behavioral innovation in human prehistory that sees the advent of our own genus, Homo, from earlier australopithecine ancestors by 2.8-2.3 million years ago.
Karen L. Baab, Yousuke Kaifu, Sarah E. Freidline, Michael J. Rogers, Sileshi Semaw   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

New Middle Pleistocene Hominin Dental Remains From Velika Balanica, Serbia [PDF]

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 188, Issue 2, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Objective The cave site of Velika Balanica in Sićevo Gorge, Serbia, has previously yielded early Neanderthal dental remains from Layer 3a, dated by thermoluminescence to 285 ± 34 and 295 ± 74 ka. We describe and compare four additional dental specimens recovered from the Middle Pleistocene Layers 3a and 3b of the cave: a right I1 (BH‐8), a ...
Predrag Radović, Joshua Lindal, Petar Milovanović, Dušan Mihailović, Mirjana Roksandic   +4 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Out of Africa: From Homo naledi to ‘Homo cyborg’

South African Journal of Science, 2016
No tools were unearthed, only traces of tool-using capabilities. No death record was chronicled, only sweeping estimations of several thousands or millions of years. No enhanced cognitive functioning was alleged, only insinuations of a primitive brain the size of an orange.
Gillian P. Christie, Derek Yach
doaj   +4 more sources

No Geoarchaeological Evidence for Deliberate Burial by Homo naledi

PaleoAnthropology
In mid-2023, a preprint was uploaded by some of the team working at the Rising Star Cave System in South Africa on new finds regarding the hominin Homo naledi.
Kimberly Foecke, Alain Queffelec, Robyn Pickering   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The upper limb of Homo naledi [PDF]

Journal of Human Evolution, 2017
The evolutionary transition from an ape-like to human-like upper extremity occurred in the context of a behavioral shift from an upper limb predominantly involved in locomotion to one adapted for manipulation. Selection for overarm throwing and endurance running is thought to have further shaped modern human shoulder girdle morphology and its position ...
Feuerriegel, Elen M, Green, David J, Walker, Christopher S, Schmid, Peter, Hawks, John, Berger, Lee R, Churchill, Steven E   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The thigh and leg of Homo naledi [PDF]

Journal of Human Evolution, 2017
This paper describes the 108 femoral, patellar, tibial, and fibular elements of a new species of Homo (Homo naledi) discovered in the Dinaledi chamber of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. Homo naledi possesses a mosaic of primitive, derived, and unique traits functionally indicative of a bipedal hominin adapted for long distance walking and ...
Damiano Marchi, Christopher S. Walker, Pianpian Wei, Trenton W. Holliday, Steven E. Churchill, Lee R. Berger, Jeremy M. DeSilva   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Estimating the age and affinities of Homo naledi

South African Journal of Science, 2015
J. Francis Thackeray
doaj   +4 more sources

Dental topography and the diet of Homo naledi [PDF]

Journal of Human Evolution, 2018
Though late Middle Pleistocene in age, Homo naledi is characterized by a mosaic of Australopithecus-like (e.g., curved fingers, small brains) and Homo-like (e.g., elongated lower limbs) traits, which may suggest it occupied a unique ecological niche.
Michael A. Berthaume, Lucas K. Delezene, Kornelius Kupczik   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources