Neanderthal coasteering and the first Portuguese hominin tracksites [PDF]
Multiple sources of evidence for the systematic use of coastal ecosystems and resources by Neanderthals are known. Fossil hominin footprints offer direct portraits of individual or social group presence and locomotor behavior, and interspecific ...
Carlos Neto de Carvalho +16 more
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Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Background There remains debate about the pyrotechnical capabilities of Neanderthals. Evidence of fire has been found at many Middle Palaeolithic sites, widely accepted to be associated with Neanderthals. However, multiple Neanderthal sites show a marked
Andreu Arinyo i Prats +3 more
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Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains [PDF]
Throughout history, humans have had a complex relationship with lions, both reverencing and fearing them. Interactions between Neanderthals and cave lions (Panthera spelaea) remain poorly documented due to the scarcity of direct evidence.
Grégory Abrams +12 more
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The Mismeasure of Neanderthals
From their nineteenth-century discovery, Neanderthals have been burdened with images of brutishness and failure—hairy, stooped figures constructed less from evidence than from Victorian prejudice, colonial ideology, and the authority of early ...
Gabriela Amorós, José S. Carrión
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How Our Neanderthal Genes Affect the COVID-19 Mortality: Iran and Mongolia, Two Countries with the Same SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Cluster but Different Mortality Rates [PDF]
Neanderthal genes possibly gave modern human protection against viruses. However, a recent study revealed that that a long sequence of DNA that is inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors can be linked to severe COVID-19 infection and hospitalization ...
S A R Mortazavi +4 more
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A Critique on the Book “From Arabia to the Pacific: How Our Species Colonised Asia” [PDF]
Professor Robin Dennell is one of the most well-known Paleolithic archaeologists with a specialty on Asia. His recent book, published by Routledge Publication in 2020, is a good example of borrowing ecological and biological concepts, and in particular ...
Seyyed Milad Hashemi
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Climate change in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP and Neanderthal territorial habitability. [PDF]
After having lived as the dominant human species in Europe for over 200 kyr, Homo neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals) disappeared around 40 kyr BP (Before Present) Higham T (2014). Competition with Homo sapiens, who arrived in Europe around the same time,
Anna Degioanni +3 more
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The dataset described in this paper presents an annotated compilation of absolute dates obtained from archaeological sites located in northern Iberia corresponding broadly to the Cantabrian region (Spain).
Mikel Díaz-Rodríguez +3 more
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An African-study of the contribution of Neanderthals to funeral rituals
Neanderthals are at the moment regarded as the originators of funeral rituals. The connection of the Neanderthals to Africa is understudied and in most cases not conclusive yet Africans practice funeral rituals as if it is the primary reason for their ...
Agai M. Jock
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‘Neanderthal bone flutes’: simply products of Ice Age spotted hyena scavenging activities on cave bear cubs in European cave bear dens [PDF]
Punctured extinct cave bear femora were misidentified in southeastern Europe (Hungary/Slovenia) as ‘Palaeolithic bone flutes’ and the ‘oldest Neanderthal instruments’.
Cajus G. Diedrich
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