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Raw material sourcing in the Middle Paleolithic site of Gruta da Oliveira (Central Limestone Massif, Estremadura, Portugal)

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016
The cave site of Gruta da Oliveira is located in the Almonda karst system, at the interface between the Central Limestone Massif of Portuguese Estremadura (CLM) and the adjacent Sedimentary Basin of the River Tagus (TSB).
Henrique Matias
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Neanderthal use of fish, mammals, birds, starchy plants and wood 125-250,000 years ago. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Neanderthals are most often portrayed as big game hunters who derived the vast majority of their diet from large terrestrial herbivores while birds, fish and plants are seen as relatively unimportant or beyond the capabilities of Neanderthals.
Bruce L Hardy, Marie-Hélène Moncel
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Beyond multiregional and simple out-of-Africa models of human evolution [PDF]

, 2019
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Chikhi, Lounès, Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Thomas, Mark G.   +2 more
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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]

, 2017
The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha, Barash, Alon, Barzilai, Omry, Been, Ella, Benazzi, Stefano, Ekshtain, Ravid, Greenbaum, Noam, Hovers, Erella, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Levin, Lihi, Malinski-Buller, Ariel, Mayer, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef, Mitki, Netta, Nir, Nadav, Oxilia, Gregorio, Porat, Naomi, Rak, Yoel, Roskin, Joel, Shahack-Gross, Ruth, Soudack, Michalle, Stahlschmidt, Mareike C., Yeshurun, Reuven   +21 more
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At the onset of the Micoquian in Central Europe: raw material constraints and technological versatility at Neumark-Nord 2/0 (Germany)

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
After the Eemian, Neanderthals of Central Europe produced new stone tools for coping with the increased seasonality and climatic deterioration of the Last Glacial.
Picin, A.
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Filling the gap. Human cranial remains from Gombore II (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia; ca. 850 ka) and the origin of Homo heidelbergensis [PDF]

, 2016
African archaic humans dated to around 1,0 Ma share morphological affinities with Homo ergaster and appear distinct in cranio-dental morphology from those of the Middle Pleistocene that are referred to Homo heidelbergensis.
DI VINCENZO, FABIO, Lorenza, Gagliardi, MANZI, Giorgio, Marcello, Piperno, PROFICO, ANTONIO   +4 more
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Metagenomic analysis of dental calculus in ancient Egyptian baboons [PDF]

, 2019
Dental calculus, or mineralized plaque, represents a record of ancient biomolecules and food residues. Recently, ancient metagenomics made it possible to unlock the wealth of microbial and dietary information of dental calculus to reconstruct oral ...
Bramanti, Barbara, Guellil, Meriam, Kersten, Oliver, Ottoni, Claudio, Ozga, Andrew T, Porcier, Stéphanie, Stone, Anne C, Van Neer, Wim   +7 more
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Genomic analysis of a novel Neanderthal from Mezmaiskaya Cave provides insights into the genetic relationships of Middle Palaeolithic populations

Scientific Reports, 2022
The Mezmaiskaya cave is located on the North Caucasus near the border that divides Europe and Asia. Previously, fossil remains for two Neanderthals were reported from Mezmaiskaya Cave.
Tatiana V. Andreeva, Andrey D. Manakhov, Fedor E. Gusev, Anton D. Patrikeev, Lyubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Ivan G. Shirobokov, Evgeny I. Rogaev   +7 more
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Hand to mouth in a Neandertal : right-handedness in regourdou 1 [PDF]

, 2012
We describe and analyze a Neandertal postcranial skeleton and dentition, which together show unambiguous signs of right-handedness. Asymmetries between the left and right upper arm in Regourdou 1 were identified nearly 20 years ago, then confirmed by ...
Bondioli, Luca, Fiore, Ivana, Frayer, David W., Guatelli-Steinberg, Debbie, Macchiarelli, Roberto, Volpato, Virginie   +5 more
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Archaic mitochondrial DNA inserts in modern day nuclear genomes

, 2019
Traces of interbreeding of Neanderthals and Denisovans with modern humans in the form of archaic DNA have been detected in the genomes of present-day human populations outside sub-Saharan Africa.
Bücking, R., Cox, M., Hudjashov, G., Saag, L., Stoneking, M., Sudoyo, H.   +5 more
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