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Ecography, EarlyView.Patterns in functional and phylogenetic diversity reflect ecological and evolutionary relationships among taxa, and thus can offer key insights into the mechanisms underlying species distributions. However, disentangling the relative influence of proximate environmental drivers versus biogeographic evolutionary history can be a challenge.
Carson P. Hedberg, Felisa A. Smith
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Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin (henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour cannot be inferred from archaeological remains and artefacts alone ...
Elisa Bandini +2 more
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Processes and Predictions in Ecological Models: Logic and Causality
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To make credible ecological predictions for terrestrial ecosystems in a changing environment and increase our understanding of ecological processes, we need plant ecological models that can be fitted to spatial and temporal ecological data.
Christian Damgaard
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Dating the Middle Palaeolithic of Fumane Cave by the combined ESR/U‐series method
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fumane Cave, located in Northern Italy, is a major prehistoric site for understanding late Neandertal and early modern human behaviours. The cave contains a 12‐m‐thick stratigraphic sequence of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers, which have yielded a number of flint artefacts and faunal remains.
Christophe Falguères +4 more
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Challenges in dating blanket peat and implications for understanding its initiation in Ireland
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blanket peat is widespread in maritime extra‐tropical environments. Prehistoric land‐use activity was traditionally invoked as the stimulus of blanket peat initiation in the British Isles, but recently, climate has been viewed as the driver of peat formation.
Helen Essell +2 more
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Communities Beyond Society: Divergence of Local Prehistories on the Bothnian Arc, Northern Europe
Open Archaeology, 2021 This article presents a comparison of material records of two nearby regions on the coast of the Bothnian Bay. The timeframe is 5300–2000 BCE. The focus is on regional differences, which indicate a schizmogenesis of communal identities.
Hakonen Aki
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Raman Analysis of Roman Mosaics From the Upper Guadalquivir Valley (Spain)
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.This work is focused on the Raman analysis of two Roman mosaics from Jaén (Spain) using portable and benchtop equipment, complemented by elemental analysis using EDXRF and petrographic analysis. The results obtained have provided a detailed characterisation of the tesserae.
A. Sánchez +7 more
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Archaeological excavations at Gamzigrad - Romuliana in 2007-2008 [PDF]
Starinar, 2013 Systematical archaeological excavations at the site Gamzigrad - Felix Romuliana continued in 2007-2008 in the south-eastern part of the fortified imperial palace, in the section of the thermae according to the plan of archaeological research for this ...
Petković Sofija, Kapuran Aleksandar
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Biomechanical Analysis of Mongolian Bronze and Iron Age Four‐Legged Walking Petroglyphs
Natural Sciences, EarlyView.Top: Photograph (by Krisztián Bécs) of an Iron Age Mongolian rock‐goatpetroglyph. Bottom: ABSTRACT Since the works of Eadweard Muybridge in the 1880s, the characteristics of motion of four‐legged animals are well known for experts of animal locomotion, and the different gaits of many four‐legged species have been investigated in detail.
Krisztián Bécs +2 more
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An Antemortem Malaligned Femoral Fracture in a Pre‐Colonial Southern African Hunter‐Gatherer/Herder
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Physical trauma has significant ramifications on a person's way of life depending on social structure and access to support. Understanding trauma for past people is valuable for assessing the impact of trauma on mobility, functionality, and social integration of individuals.
Siwaphiwe Mfengu +2 more
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