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Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Anthropology, 2013
A critical analysis of the debate that has surrounded the emergence of “modern behavior” during the last two decades and new ways to study material culture and human-environment relationships allow us to design a novel approach with which we can understand the mechanisms that have led human populations to develop the variety of cultures that we ...
d'Errico, Francesco, Banks, William E.
openaire   +2 more sources

Species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Aves, Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene—a review

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
This study investigates the species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe, specifically within the territory of present‐day Ukraine, during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The research is based on the comprehensive revision of skeletal remains found at archaeological sites.
Leonid Gorobets   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocultural Approaches in the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition: A Reflection on 50 Years

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On the occasion of SAFN's 50th anniversary I reflect on the development of biocultural and human evolutionary approaches to human diet and nutrition. I maintain that SAFN and its predecessors the Committee (1974–1987) and then Council on Nutritional Anthropology (1987–2004) have modeled, fostered, and advanced biocultural work in anthropology ...
Andrea S. Wiley
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Participants' and Health Professionals' Perceptions and Experiences of Time‐Restricted Eating: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Time‐restricted eating (TRE) limits food intake to a specific daily window and has gained popularity, showing modest benefits for cardiometabolic health. However, perspectives and experiences from adults and healthcare professionals about TRE remain underexplored but are vital for successful implementation in research and clinical ...
Rubén Fernández‐Rodríguez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Middle Paleolithic of Arabia

open access: yesArchaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, 2016
The study focuses on the origin and evolution of the Middle Paleolithic in the Arabian Peninsula, a major crossroads of human and animal migrations connecting Africa with Eurasia in the Late Middle and Early Upper Pleistocene. Middle Paleolithic human dispersal in Arabia was caused by intermittent environmental changes and related fl uctuations of the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

The Oldest Traces of Alcoholic Beverages in the Border Zone of the North and East European Plains

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 153-172, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Analysis of organic compounds preserved on pottery from the Bell Beaker community and the initial phase of the Trzciniec Cultural Sphere in the border zone of the Eastern and North European Plains was prompted by traces of alcoholic beverages found in contextually and formally analogous discoveries of more westerly provenance.
Dariusz Manasterski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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