A Middle Pleistocene wolf from central Italy provides insights on the first occurrence of Canis lupus in Europe [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5 ± 2.4 ka from the Middle Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents one of the few Middle Pleistocene remains of a wolf-like canid falling within the timeframe ...
Dawid A. Iurino +7 more
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Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Central Asia is positioned at a crossroads linking several zones important to hominin dispersal during the Middle Pleistocene. However, the scarcity of stratified and dated archaeological material and paleoclimate records makes it difficult to understand
Emma M Finestone +13 more
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Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 The use of bone as raw material for implements is documented since the Early Pleistocene. Throughout the Early and Middle Pleistocene bone tool shaping was done by percussion flaking, the same technique used for knapping stone artifacts, although bone shaping was rare compared to stone tool flaking.
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Middle Pleistocene re-organization of Australian Monsoon [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The sensitivity of the Australian Monsoon to changing climate boundary conditions remains controversial due to limited understanding of forcing processes and past variability. Here, we reconstruct austral summer monsoonal discharge and wind-driven winter
Li Gong +11 more
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Review of the Early–Middle Pleistocene boundary and Marine Isotope Stage 19 [PDF]
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2021 The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the base of the Chibanian Stage and Middle Pleistocene Subseries at the Chiba section, Japan, was ratified on January 17, 2020.
Martin J. Head
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Pleistocene Hominins as a Resource for Carnivores: A c. 500,000-Year-Old Human Femur Bearing Tooth-Marks in North Africa (Thomas Quarry I, Morocco). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 In many Middle Pleistocene sites, the co-occurrence of hominins with carnivores, who both contributed to faunal accumulations, suggests competition for resources as well as for living spaces.
Camille Daujeard +6 more
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New dating of the Matalascañas footprints provides new evidence of the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 9-8) hominin paleoecology in southern Europe [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Hominin footprints were recently discovered at Matalascañas (Huelva; South of Iberian Peninsula). They were dated thanks to a previous study in deposits of the Asperillo cliff to 106 ± 19 ka, Upper Pleistocene, making Neandertals the most likely track ...
Eduardo Mayoral +8 more
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A late Middle Pleistocene Middle Stone Age sequence identified at Wadi Lazalim in southern Tunisia [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The late Middle Pleistocene, starting at around 300 ka, witnessed large-scale biological and cultural dynamics in hominin evolution across Africa including the onset of the Middle Stone Age that is closely associated with the evolution of our species ...
Emanuele Cancellieri +13 more
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Lethal interpersonal violence in the Middle Pleistocene. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Evidence of interpersonal violence has been documented previously in Pleistocene members of the genus Homo, but only very rarely has this been posited as the possible manner of death.
Nohemi Sala +8 more
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Beaver exploitation, 400,000 years ago, testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Gaudzinski-Windheuser S +2 more
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