A morphological analysis of the modern human frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany [PDF]
Scientific ReportsFrontal bone morphology is considered informative concerning phylogenetic and taxonomic affinities in hominin fossils. However, evaluating individual frontal bone features, especially macroscopically and with qualitative data, can produce contradictory ...
Carolin Röding +3 more
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Dental Microwear Evidence of Holocene Dietary Variability in the Argentinian Pampas and Paraná Delta. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives This study explores the subsistence strategies of Middle‐to‐Late Holocene human populations in the Argentinean Pampas and Paraná River Delta by analyzing dental microwear patterns. Materials and Methods We examined occlusal molar microwear textures of individuals from the Middle and Late Holocene recovered from 12 archaeological ...
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Contextualizing wild cereal harvesting at Middle Palaeolithic Ghar-e Boof in the southern Zagros [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA stratigraphic sequence from Ghar-e Boof, a cave site in Iran, covering a period of c. 80,000–30,000 BP and containing more than 20,000 seed and chaff remains, allows a detailed study of the use of annual seed species of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer ...
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Virtual reconstruction and analysis of the face of DFN3-150 Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis specimen from Dafnero, Greece [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe systematics of the Eurasian Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene monkey Paradolichopithecus is a long-debated topic in primate paleontology. This taxon’s phylogenetic position has implications for our understanding of cercopithecid evolution: while it ...
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Author Correction: Contextualizing wild cereal harvesting at Middle Palaeolithic Ghar-e Boof in the southern Zagros [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSimone Riehl +3 more
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Fossil Ginkgoales cuticle fine details data from East Inner Mongolia, Northeast China
Data in Brief, 2021 The data presented in this article are related to the research paper entitled “Cuticle ultrastructure of Baiera furcata from Northeast China and its implication in Taxonomy and Palaeoenvironment” (Guignard et al. 2019 [1].
Gaëtan Guignard +2 more
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2022 Small flake industries are a commonly identified component of Lower Paleolithic archaeological assemblages in Eurasia. Utilized as blanks for tools, at many sites, their functions are often poorly understood.
Juliette Guibert-Cardin +6 more
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The Application of Bony Labyrinth Methods for Forensic Affinity Estimation
Biology, 2022 Population affinity identification is important for reconstructing the biological profile of human skeletal remains. Most anthropological methods for predicting population affinity rely on complete crania or cranial parts.
Alexandra Uhl +2 more
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Palaeoclimate and palaeoseismic events discovered in Diexi barrier lake on the Minjiang River, China [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2014 Studies on the formation of the ancient Diexi barrier lake on the Mingjiang River, southwestern China, have long been carried out. However, investigations into the correlation between the palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment and the palaeoseismic ...
X. Q. Wang +4 more
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The early Miocene lake of Foieta la Sarra-A in eastern Iberian Peninsula and its relevance for the reconstruction of the Ribesalbes–Alcora Basin palaeoecology [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 The Ribesalbes–Alcora Basin (Castelló Province, Spain) contains two lower Miocene units that are rich in fossils. The Unit B contains oil-shale and laminated bituminous dolomicrite related to a palaeolake, whereas the Unit C is composed of sandstone and ...
Sergio Álvarez-Parra +6 more
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