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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S8-S30, June 2026.Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren +23 more
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Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses
Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 1099-1120, June 2026.ABSTRACT Until now, the significance of microbial mats in preservation of dinosaur tracks and in reconstructing the palaeoenvironment in which dinosaurs roamed was rarely studied. Dinosaur tracks are commonly found close to ancient aquatic bodies where moist sediment had once allowed footstep registration.
Nora Noffke +3 more
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Calcareous nannofossil communities during Late Triassic Mass Extinction and Early Jurassic recovery in the NW Tethys: evidence from Slovakia, Western Carpathians [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe first calcareous nannoplankton extinction and recovery close to the Triassic/Jurassic boundary (TJB) were studied in two Tatra Mountains sections of Kardolína and Furkaska.
Katarína Holcová +2 more
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Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 914-944, June 2026.ABSTRACT Gas domes serve as some of the earliest and most persisting indicators of life on Earth, yet their documentation in continental environments remains sparse. This study aims to bridge this gap by examining gas domes within the Permian fluvial succession of Monte Luco, located in the caldera of the Bolzano Supervolcano. These structures occur as
Andrea Baucon +5 more
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Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]
, 2008 Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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The taphonomy of vertebrate melanosomes
, 2020 The field of fossil colour is emerging rapidly as a new focus of palaeobiological research. Evidence of melanosomes, micron-sized organelles containing melanin, found in skin, feathers and hair of exceptionally preserved fossil vertebrates has been used ...
Rossi, Valentina
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Evidence of a therapsid scavenger in the Late Permian Karoo Basin, South Africa
Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2012 Dicynodonts are an extinct group of herbivorous non-mammalian therapsids (‘mammal-like’ reptiles) that are widely known from terrestrial Permo-Triassic strata throughout Pangaea.
Nicholas Fordyce +2 more
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Taphonomy and death investigations
, 2011 Determining the approximate time of death in human remains presents criminal investigators with a complex dilemma. This is particularly true when advanced decomposition has already set in.
Rodriguez, Katherine M.
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, 2013 In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper. Savrda and Lewis Gastaldo define taphonomy as the paleontological subdiscipline which is concerned with the process responsible for any organism becoming part of the fossil record, and ...
Rounds, Amberly
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Could a cave hyena have made a musical instrument? A reply to Cajus G. Diedrich
Arheološki Vestnik, 2016 The contribution is a reply to the article written by Cajus G. Diedrich and published online on the web site of the Royal Society Open Science. Diedrich’s article is fraught with factual errors and underestimations of the archaeological and musicological
Ivan Turk, Matija Turk, Borut Toškan
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