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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Data about the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Western Morava valley [PDF]

, 2014
A relatively small number of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites have been registered in southeast Europe. There are only two regions where sites from this period have been systematically surveyed, and where they have been encountered in ...
Milošević, Stefan, Radović, Predrag, Mihailović, Dušan   +2 more
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Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years

Humanities, 2019
The important discoveries of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts in stratigraphical context within Lower and early Middle Pleistocene deposits in the western continental part of Europe along the rift systeme of the Rhine Valley are pointing at the possible ...
Lutz Fiedler, Christian Humburg, Horst Klingelhöfer, Sebastian Stoll, Manfred Stoll   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology of Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal).

PLoS ONE, 2021
Gruta do Caldeirão features a c. 6 m-thick archaeological stratification capped by Holocene layers ABC-D and Ea, which overlie layer Eb, a deposit of Magdalenian age that underwent significant disturbance, intrusion, and component mixing caused by ...
João Zilhão, Diego E Angelucci, Lee J Arnold, Francesco d'Errico, Laure Dayet, Martina Demuro, Marianne Deschamps, Helen Fewlass, Luís Gomes, Beth Linscott, Henrique Matias, Alistair W G Pike, Peter Steier, Sahra Talamo, Eva M Wild   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

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, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terrace reconstruction and long profile projection: a case study from the Solent river system near Southampton, England

, 2012
River terrace sequences are important frameworks for archaeological evidence and as such it is important to produce robust correlations between what are often fragmentary remnants of ancient terraces.
Schwenninger, J-L, Briant, RM, Marshall, G.D., Wenban-Smith, F.F., Bates, MR, Briant, Rebecca M., Wenban-Smith, FF, Marshall, GD, Bates, M.R., Schwenninger, J.L.   +9 more
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The Effect of an Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Diet in Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Single Arm Crossover Pilot Feasibility Study. [PDF]

Musculoskeletal Care
ABSTRACT Background Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often ask whether dietary changes or food exclusions can reduce symptoms. The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet, an elimination‐based approach, is popular on social media, with anecdotal reports of benefit, but lacks clinical evaluation in RA.
McNeill JJ, Mearns GJ, Grainger R, Zinn C.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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