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The Dentition of the Aurignacian Mandible Les Rois 2, France: New Data and Taxonomic Reassessment

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 191, Issue 1, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This study provides new dental phenotypic data on the Aurignacian mandible Les Rois 2 (southwestern France). A former study of its dental morphology concluded that its taxonomic assignment to either Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis was “uncertain” and could reflect a recent Neanderthal ancestry of this specimen.
Jérôme Isle de Beauchaine, Gaël Becam, Florent Détroit, Fernando Ramirez Rozzi, Dominique Grimaud‐Hervé, Christine Verna   +5 more
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When the woolly rhinoceroses roamed East Asia: a review of isotopic paleoecology of the genus Coelodonta from the Tibetan Plateau to northern Eurasia

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
East Asia, being the evolutionary center of Coelodonta, offers a unique opportunity to explore the spatiotemporal paleoecologies of this genus. This study utilized bulk and serial stable carbon and oxygen isotope analyses on the Coelodonta nihowanensis ...
Jiao Ma, Jiao Ma, Shiqi Wang, Tao Deng, Tao Deng   +4 more
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Tooth eruption status and bite force determine dental microwear texture gradients in albino rats (Rattus norvegicus forma domestica)

The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 9, Page 2411-2423, September 2026.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is widely applied for inferring diet in vertebrates. Besides diet and ingesta properties, factors like wear stage and bite force may affect microwear formation, potentially leading to tooth position‐specific microwear patterns.
Daniela E. Winkler, Isabelle Bernetière, Christine Böhmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Society of Archaeological Masters Students Annual Conference V

Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2017
The Society of Archaeological Masters Students Conference is an opportunity for UCL Institute of Archaeology masters students to present their research.
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Material Before Morphology: Substrate‐Dependent Mechanical Tuning of Radular Teeth

Advanced Materials Interfaces
Biological systems often adapt to mechanical demands through localized tuning of material properties rather than morphological redesign. Here, we identify a natural strategy for functional optimization in gastropod radular teeth—microscale scraping tools
Ida Lilienthal, Bernhard Hausdorf, Stanislav N. Gorb, Wencke Krings   +3 more
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Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part II Deriving instrument‐specific correction equations for meta‐analyses using published data

The Anatomical Record, Volume 309, Issue 9, Page 2455-2475, September 2026.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has emerged as a valuable method for investigating the feeding ecology of vertebrates. Over the past decade, three‐dimensional topographic data from microscopic regions of tooth surfaces have been collected, and surface texture parameters have been published for both extant and fossil species.
Mugino O. Kubo, T. Kubo, Ellen Schulz‐Kornas, T. M. Kaiser, Daniela E. Winkler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacted Bones: Can Extant Primates Help Identify Tool Use in Early Hominins?

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite recent advances pushing back the earliest record of tool use, how and when it first emerged in hominins, and the extent to which it featured amongst the numerous co‐existing species, remain critical questions in paleoanthropology. In addition to analyzing fossils and lithic toolkits, novel strides in understanding this might be made by
Rachel M. Hurwitz, Katarina Almeida‐Warren, Susana Carvalho, Thomas A. Püschel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Through Time and Across Traits: Evaluating Explanations of Human Evolution

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT We argue that current explanatory practice misses two situations that can arise in any lineage, not only ours. The first is dynamic: traits continue changing in one direction when a lineage's own niche construction keeps enlarging the problem it faces.
Miki Ben‐Dor, Ran Barkai
wiley   +1 more source

A 4D geometric morphometrics workflow to quantify complex biological motion

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 9, Page 2616-2628, September 2026.
Abstract Quantifying biological motion is fundamentally tied to quantifying the biological structures that produce that motion. Yet, this dependence makes it essential to decouple motion from static morphology to enable general, comparable analyses across individuals and conditions. In this work, we present a methodological pipeline to study biological
Marta Gómez‐Recio, Markus Bastir, Gael Deboeck, Antonella LoMauro, Andrea Aliverti, Véronique Feipel, Barbara Fischer, Philipp Mitteroecker, Benoit Beyer   +8 more
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The Late Pleistocene in the Northeastern Central African Rainforest

The reconstruction of Late Pleistocene population dynamics in the northeastern Central African rainforest is hampered by the scanty though intriguing environmental,archaeological, and human fossil records. The few well documented and dated sites combined
Cornelissen, E.
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