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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
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, 2021 The biological and cultural evolution of hominins in Asia is a central topic of paleoanthropology. Yet, the Paleolithic archaeology of key regions of Asia, including the Iranian plateau, have not been integrated into human evolutionary studies.
Shoaee, MJ +5 more
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Through Time and Across Traits: Evaluating Explanations of Human Evolution. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT We argue that current explanatory practice misses two situations that can arise in any lineage, not only ours. The first is dynamic: traits continue changing in one direction when a lineage's own niche construction keeps enlarging the problem it faces.
Ben-Dor M, Barkai R.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico +3 more
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Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic
, 2022 Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithic provides comprehensive knowledge on Neanderthals who lived throughout the European and Asian continents. The book synthesizes historical information about the study
Romagnoli F., Benazzi S., Rivals F.
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Constructing chronologies for the late Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic: limitations and means to overcome them [PDF]
World Archaeology, 2015 AbstractImprovements in our understandings of the timing and nature of millennial-scale climatic variability combined with improved dating methods and more accurate calibration curves have allowed researchers to better place archaeological cultures within their paleoenvironmental contexts.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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Neanderthals’ recolonizations of marginal areas: An overview from Eastern Germany
Quaternary Science AdvancesThe Middle Paleolithic in Eastern Germany presents a unique context for understanding Neanderthal populations' dynamics within environmental shifts.
Andrea Picin
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