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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
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Opponens Pollicis Mechanical Effectiveness in Neandertals and Early Modern Humans
PaleoAnthropology, 2011 Researchers have repeatedly noted a flange of bone along the distodorsoradial margin of the Neandertal first metacarpal diaphysis, marking the insertion of the opponens pollicis muscle.
Julia Maki and Erik Trinkaus
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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 +3 more
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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia).
PLoS ONE, 2019 The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations.
Juan I Morales +10 more
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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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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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The Middle Paleolithic of Murcia
Treballs d'Arqueologia, 2008 Hi ha 36 jaciments del paleolític mitjà coneguts a la regió de Múrcia. Els jaciments a l'aire lliure són tots de superfície. Una concentració en els altiplans de Yecla indica que, per al cas del sílex, la variabilitat industrial observada pot explicar-se a través d'un model senzill en el qual el grau de reducció està en funció de la distància a les ...
Zilhão, João, Villaverde, Valentín
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Symbolism in the Middle Palaeolithic
, 2023 Abstract The existence and extent of symbolism among Middle Palaeolithic pre-modern humans present a significant point of controversy. As with any scientific dispute, there is a substantial conceptual component to these discussions, here in particular concerning the concept of symbolism, which is often poorly defined. The present chapter
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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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