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Care of Infants in the Past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2020
The importance of care of infants and children in palaeoanthropological and human behavioural ecological research on the evolution of our species is evident in the diversity of research on human development, alloparental care, and learning and social ...
Siân Halcrow   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Hyaenas and early humans in the latest Early Pleistocene of South-Western Europe [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Throughout the Pleistocene, early humans and carnivores frequented caves and large rock-shelters, usually generating bone accumulations. The well-preserved late Early Pleistocene sedimentary sequence at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (CNERQ) has
Gonzalo J. Linares-Matás   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Virtual anthropology - a brief review of the literature and history of computed tomography. [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Sci Res, 2017
Computed tomography (CT) has influenced numerous fields since its inception in the 1970s. The field of palaeoanthropology significantly benefited from this efficient and non-invasive medium in terms of the conservation, reconstruction and analysis of ...
Uldin T.
europepmc   +3 more sources

A Database of Radiocarbon Dates for Palaeoenvironmental Research in Eastern Africa [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Quaternary, 2016
Radiocarbon dating is one of the most widely available and applied techniques to develop Late Quaternary chronologies of many ecosystems and is, thus, utilized in Quaternary studies, archaeology, hydrology, geomorphology, palaeoanthropology ...
Colin Courtney Mustaphi, Rob Marchant
doaj   +2 more sources

Digital Immortality in Palaeoanthropology and Archaeology: The Rise of the Postmortem Avatar

open access: yesHeritage
It has been proposed that we are entering the age of postmortalism, where digital immortality is a credible option. The desire to overcome death has occupied humanity for centuries, and even though biological immortality is still impossible, recent ...
Caroline M Wilkinson, Sarah Shrimpton
exaly   +3 more sources

A review of Multibody Dynamic versus Finite Element Analyses applied in palaeoanthropology: what can we expect for the study of hominin postcranial remains?

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022
"Multibody Dynamic Analysis" (MDA) and "Finite Element" Analysis (FEA) are commonly used to investigate biomechanical solicitations relative to a movement. These approaches have been also used in palaeontology to bring extinct animals, such as hominins, "
Alicia Blasi-Toccacceli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Aggregation of ROAD Data in the ARIADNE Pipeline: pitfalls and successes

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2023
In this article we describe an online database about human evolution, called the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD), and discuss our experience in aggregating Palaeolithic data from ROAD in the ARIADNE data processing pipeline.
Andrew W. Kandel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Topography of the infraorbital foramen in human skulls originating from different time periods

open access: yesFolia Morphologica, 2023
BACKGROUND: The infraorbital foramen (IOF) is present on the maxilla under the infraorbital margin. Its identification is essential in various surgical procedures.
A. Gawlikowska-Sroka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution and palaeoanthropology in Hans Blumenberg’s Nachlaß

open access: yesAisthesis, 2023
Hans Blumenberg wrote, in an unpublished manuscript entitled Ein Betrug? / Der böse Dämon (UNF 532-534), that «the whole world and human intelligence were hidden beneath the earth, where the relics of the precursors of life rest».
Josefa Ros Velasco
doaj   +1 more source

Micromorphological Study of Site Formation Processes at El Sidrón Cave (Asturias, Northern Spain): Encrustations over Neanderthal Bones

open access: yesGeosciences, 2021
El Sidrón Cave is an archaeological and anthropological reference site of the Neanderthal world. It shows singular activity related to cannibalisation, and all existing processes are relevant to explain the specific behaviour of the concerned individuals.
Juan Carlos Cañaveras   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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