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What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S8-S30, June 2026.
Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair Key, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Finestone, Joseph Benson, Rebecca Biermann Gürbüz, Adela Cebeiro, Roman Garba, Anne Grunow, C. Owen Lovejoy, Danielle MacDonald, Erica Maletic, G. Logan Miller, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jonathan Paige, Justin Pargeter, Tomos Proffitt, Mary Ann Raghanti, Teal Riley, Jeffrey I. Rose, David M. Singer, Robert S. Walker   +23 more
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Submarine ash megabed fed by far-traveled, shoreline-crossing pyroclastic currents from a large explosive volcanic eruption. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Metcalfe A, Druitt T, Pank K, Kutterolf S, Preine J, Kelfoun K, Hübscher C, Nomikou P, Ronge TA, Chiyonobu S, Koukousioura O, Woodhouse A, Beethe S, Manga M, McIntosh I, Tominaga M, Berthod C, Chen H, Clark A, DeBari S, Gertisser R, Johnston R, Peccia A, Yamamoto Y, Bernard A, Fernandez Perez T, Jones CK, Joshi KB, Kletetschka G, McCanta M, Morris A, Polymenakou P, Li X, Nedelec JM, Lee HY, Papanikolaou D.   +35 more
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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S126-S153, June 2026.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Kindler L, Gaudzinski-Windheuser S, Scherjon F, Garcia-Moreno A, Smith GM, Pop E, Speth JD, Roebroeks W.   +7 more
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Medicine for the Material World

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 434-439, June 2026.
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Sediment provenance of Late Carboniferous-Early Triassic in the Puyang area, Eastern North China Craton. [PDF]

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Yan K, Zuo Y, Hu J, Zhang Y, Zhou Y, Zhang Y, Yao Y.   +6 more
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Investigating Technology and Raw Materials Source of the Archaic and Classical Architectural Terracottas From the Athenaion in Castro (Apulia, Italy)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 512-526, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Since 2000, archaeological excavations have brought to light the sanctuary of Athena in Castro (Apulia, Italy), including terracotta roofs dated between the 6th and 4th centuries bce. Based on their morphological and stylistic features, it is suggested that the terracotta items were manufactured in the Greek colony of Taras (modern Taranto ...
M. M. N. Franceschini, T. Ismaelli, S. Vettori, L. Chelazzi, S. Ciattini, F. Di Benedetto, C. Grifa, E. Cantisani   +7 more
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Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. [PDF]

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Scerri EML, Blinkhorn J, Groucutt HS, Stewart M, Candy I, Allué E, Burguet-Coca A, Currás A, Carleton WC, Lindauer S, Spengler R, Boxleitner K, Asciak G, Colucci M, Gauci R, Hatton A, Kutowsky J, Maier A, Mata-González M, Mifsud N, Niang K, Roberts P, de Giorgio J, Xerri R, Vella NC.   +24 more
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S40-S49, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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Homo luzonensis and the role of homoplasy in the morphology of hominin insular species

Cladistics, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 286-316, June 2026.
Abstract Homo luzonensis lived during the upper Pleistocene in the northern Philippines, east of the Wallace line. The few specimens attributed to this species show a mosaic of plesiomorphies for the genus Homo and apomorphies found in upper Pleistocene Homo species.
Pierre Gousset, Jérémie Bardin, Isabelle Rouget, Armand S. Mijares, Florent Détroit   +4 more
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