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Pego do Diabo (Loures, Portugal): dating the emergence of anatomical modernity in westernmost Eurasia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
BackgroundNeandertals and the Middle Paleolithic persisted in the Iberian Peninsula south of the Ebro drainage system for several millennia beyond their assimilation/replacement elsewhere in Europe.
João Zilhão, Simon J M Davis, Cidália Duarte, António M M Soares, Peter Steier, Eva Wild   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

Tracking late Pleistocene Neandertals on the Iberian coast

Scientific Reports, 2021
Here, we report the recent discovery of 87 Neandertal footprints on the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Doñana shoreline, Spain) located on an upper Pleistocene aeolian littoral setting (about 106 ± 19 kyr).
Eduardo Mayoral, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Jéremy Duveau, Ana Santos, Antonio Rodríguez Ramírez, Juan A. Morales, Luis A. Morales, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Smooth Power of the 'Neandertal Method'

The Mathematical Intelligencer
Abstract We describe an algorithmic method to transform a Euclidean wallpaper pattern into a \emph{Circle Limit}-style picture à la Escher. The design goals for the method are to be mathematically sound, aesthetically pleasing and fast to compute.
Aaron Montag, Tim Reinhardt, Jürgen Richter-Gebert   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The emergence and complexification of symbolic practices in the Homo lineage: an archaeological and cognitive perspective Émergence et complexification des pratiques symboliques dans la lignée Homo : une approche archéologique et cognitive

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, Ivan Colagè, Larissa M. Straffon, Andrea Bender   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans.

PLoS ONE, 2019
External auditory exostoses (EAE) have been noted among the Neandertals and a few other Pleistocene humans, but until recently they have been discussed primary as minor pathological lesions with possible auditory consequences.
Erik Trinkaus, Mathilde Samsel, Sébastien Villotte   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who made the Early Aurignacian? A Reconsideration of the Brassempouy Dental Remains

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2005
The dental human remains from the early Aurignacian layers of Brassempouy (Landes) have been recently described by Henry-Gambier et al. (2004). We provide a critical re-assessment of the features that have led these authors to conclude that the taxonomic
Shara E. Bailey, Jean-Jacques Hublin
doaj   +1 more source

Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation

Boreas, EarlyView.
The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Malte Hoffmann, Tobias Lauer, Utz Böhner, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chironomid‐based summer temperature reconstruction of the Eemian–Weichselian transition at Lichtenberg, northern Germany

Boreas, EarlyView.
Understanding the temperature variability of past interglacial cycles is essential to predict future climates. We present a new summer temperature reconstruction, based on the subfossil chironomid record from a small palaeolake adjacent to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg, northern Germany. The record spans from the Saalian late glacial over
Sonja Rigterink, Bartosz Kotrys, Michael Hein, Xuan Li, Neda Rahimzadeh, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Marcel Weiss, Brigitte Urban, David Colin Tanner, Tobias Lauer, Antje Schwalb   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source