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A new assemblage of late Neanderthal remains from Cova Simanya (NE Iberia)

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2023
This study presents an exceptional collection of 54 Late Pleistocene human remains that correspond to at least three Neanderthal individuals from Simanya Gran, the main gallery of Cova Simanya, located in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula.
Juan I. Morales   +34 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geochemical “fingerprints” for Olduvai Gorge Bed II tuffs and implications for the Oldowan–Acheulean transition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Bed II is a critical part of early Pleistocene Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Its deposits include transitions from humid to more arid conditions (with associated faunal changes), from Homo habilis to erectus, and from Oldowan to Acheulean technology. Bed II (~
de la Torre, I   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Mitochondrial Dna Replacement Versus Nuclear Dna Persistence

open access: yes, 2006
In this paper we consider two populations whose generations are not overlapping and whose size is large. The number of males and females in both populations is constant.
Cann R L   +6 more
core   +1 more source

The postcranial skeleton of Monolophosaurus jiangi (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and a review of Middle Jurassic Chinese theropods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, highlighted by the origination and radiation of the large-bodied and morphologically diverse Tetanurae.
ZHAO XI-JIN   +34 more
core   +1 more source

Past materials, past minds: The philosophy of cognitive paleoanthropology

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass
The philosophy of cognitive paleoanthropology involves three related tasks: (1) asking what inferences might be drawn from the paleontological and archaeological records to past cognition, behavior and culture; (2) constructing synthetic accounts of the ...
Adrian Currie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric perspective [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Sahelanthropus tchadensis has raised much debate since its initial discovery in Chad in 2001, given its controversial classification as the earliest representative of the hominin lineage.
WALTER NEVES   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Craniophenetic Features of Cis-Kuban Population of the Early Iron Age (Preliminary Data)

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2021
This study was based on the material of two anthropological series originating from the territory of the kurgan cemetery sites at Volna 1 and the Starokorsunskaya settlement 2.
Alexandra N. Abramova
doaj   +1 more source

Unique caudal plumage of Jeholornis and complex tail evolution in early birds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Early Cretaceous bird Jeholornis was previously only known to have a distally restricted ornamental frond of tail feathers. We describe a previously unrecognized fan-shaped tract of feathers situated dorsal to the proximal caudal vertebrae.
O'Connor, Jingmai   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

The ‘mosaic habitat’ concept in human evolution: past and present [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The habitats preferred by hominins and other species are an important theme in palaeoanthropology, and the ‘mosaic habitat’ (also referred to as habitat heterogeneity) has been a central concept in this regard for the last four decades.
Altmann S.A.   +123 more
core   +3 more sources

Inconstant bones of the human skulls from scythians grave field near Kolomak village

open access: yesАктуальні проблеми сучасної медицини, 2020
The research of the features of variant anatomy, as an integral part of paleoanthropological exploration, is an extremely important source of additional information about the anatomical structure of humans.
Sergey Sherstyuk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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