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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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El arte paleolítico en el cine

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2019
El artículo investiga la difusión del arte paleolítico en el cine, desde R.F.D 10000 BC (1916) de Willis O’Brien a Alpha de Albert Hughes (2018). Establece una metodología para clasificar y estudiar el «arte paleolítico fílmico» en tres tipos: creado ...
Alberto Lombo Montañés
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Revisiting the Palaeolithic site at Szeged-Öthalom: attempt for appoint the Palaeolithic horizon [PDF]

Studia Quaternaria, 2019
This paper presents a new approach to study the palaeoecological and archaeological benefits of the previously investigated Szeged-Öthalom area. The aim was to combine the archaeological results with the palaeoecological ones by a new integral view. Age-depth models of 14C dated charcoal were calculated via Bayesian method to reconstruct the sediment ...
Molnár Dávid, Makó László, Sümegi Pál, Sümegi Balázs Pál, Törőcsik Tünde   +4 more
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Palaeoenvironmental forcing during the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in central-western Portugal

, 2011
Geoarchaeological analysis of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic record preserved in cave, rock-shelter and open-air sites in the northern sector of the Meso-Cenozoic of the Western Iberian Peninsula margin (Portugal) reveals several disconformities ...
Dimuccio, Luca António, Almeida, Miguel, Miguel Almeida, Aubry, Thierry, Lúcio Cunha, Cunha, Lúcio José Sobral da, Thierry Aubry, Maria J. Neves, Luca A. Dimuccio, Diego E. Angelucci, Neves, Maria João, Angelucci, Diego E.   +11 more
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The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A New Look at the End of the Middle Palaeolithic Sequence in Southwestern France

, 2011
International audienceIn the south west of France the majority of research concerning the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition tends to focus upon the Chatelperronian and Aurignacian at the expense of the end of the Middle Palaeolithic.
Bordes, Jean-Guillaume, Discamps, Emmanuel, Gravina, Brad, Jaubert, Jacques   +3 more
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The reception of Palaeolithic art at the turn of the twentieth century: between archaeology and art history [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2015
In this paper I focus on the role of art history in early conceptualizations of Palaeolithic art (1860-1930). In the decades around 1900, the formal analysis of Palaeolithic representations was highly inspired by models, theories and concepts first ...
Oscar Moro Abadía
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