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The evolution and cultural transmission of percussive technology: integrating evidence from palaeoanthropology and primatology

, 2009
We bring together the quite different kinds of evidence available from palaeoanthropology and primatology to better understand the origins of Plio-Pleistocene percussive technology.
Toth, Nicholas, Schick, Kathy, Kathy Schick, Whiten, Andrew, Andrew Whiten, Nicholas Toth   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Pleistocene ichnological geoheritage in national parks on the Cape coast

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science
Aeolianites and cemented beach deposits on South Africa’s Cape coast preserve evidence of events that transpired on them when they were composed of unconsolidated sand.
Charles W. Helm, Andrew S. Carr, Hayley C. Cawthra, Jan C. De Vynck, Martin G. Lockley, Mark G. Dixon, Renee Rust, Willo Stear, Guy H.H. Thesen, Ferdi Van Berkel, Jan A. Venter   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg, Germany, in the context of the northern central European Aurignacian

Boreas, EarlyView.
Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde, Gabriele Russo, Neda Rahimzadeh, Felix Bittmann, Nikolitsa Nikolakopoulou, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why heads matter in palaeoanthropology: The impacts and consequences of collecting skulls [PDF]

This piece reflects on the importance of and focus on heads – especially the collecting of skulls and its impacts – in alpha taxonomy, biological anthropology, and Western science more broadly. We consider how the announcement and overall discovery story
Rebecca R. Ackermann, Paige Madison, Lauren Schroeder   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Crop Management Practices in the Humid Hills from Northeastern Brazil between 670-530 Yrs BP: Palynological Evidences from Archaeological Site Evaristo I

Sagvntum, 2015
The first cultural traces of ancient pottery towns in the Serra de Baturité are presented. The pollen spectrum of sediments reveals a mosaic of moist mountainous vegetation, xerophytes, annual nitrophilous, hygrophilous and bog plants.
Aline Gonçalves Freitas, José Sebastián Carrión García, Santiago Fernández Jiménez, Igor Pedroza, Caroline Fernandez Caromano, Leandro Mathews Cascón, Gina Faraco Bianchini, Sergio Francisco Serafim Monteiro da Silva, Neuvania Curte Ghetti, Claudia Alves de Oliveira   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

AlpIce‐1: a database of geochronological and geomorphological constraints on Alps‐wide palaeoglacier fluctuations between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene

Boreas, EarlyView.
The AlpIce‐1 database is the first compilation of published geomorphological and geochronological markers constraining build‐up, culmination and decay of glaciers from the Last Glacial Maximum through the Holocene across the entire European Alps. AlpIce‐1 integrates more than 4200 surface‐exposure and radiocarbon ages, homogenized, quality controlled ...
Sarah Kamleitner, Susan Ivy‐Ochs, Tancrède P. M. Leger, Andreas Henz, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Andreas Vieli, Guillaume Jouvet   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Palaeoanthropology - Sahelanthropus or 'Sahelpithecus'? [PDF]

, 2002
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62951/1/419581a ...
Brigitte Senut, Milford H. Wolpoff, Martin Pickford, Senut, B., Pickford, M., Wolpoff, Milford H., Hawks, John D., John Hawks   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Growing together: Developmental integration and modularity in the human talus–calcaneus complex

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
This study investigates morphological integration and trabecular bone development in the human talus–calcaneus complex during postnatal ontogeny. The two bones exhibit strong integration throughout development, with differing bone volume fraction trajectories presumably reflecting their distinct functional roles during bipedal gait acquisition ...
Carla Figus, Rita Sorrentino, Francesca Seghi, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Kristian J. Carlson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of footwear on human talar trabecular architecture

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Medial and lateral views of the human foot skeleton in the shod and unshod groups, with color maps representing mean relative trabecular bone volume fraction (rBV/TV) in the talus for each group. The shod group exhibited greater rBV/TV in the medial and posterior talus, whereas the unshod group had greater rBV/TV in the talar head and neck.
Hannah N. Farrell, Andrea Luková, Sebastian Bachmann, Karley Spriggs, Alexander Synek, Dieter H. Pahr, Zewdi J. Tsegai   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Knuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan‐Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the carpals of knuckle‐walking taxa appear relatively specialized.
Laura E. Hunter, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caley M. Orr, Biren A. Patel, Zeresenay Alemseged   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source