Peeters, Susan Zwart, Hub
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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
During the past decades, our image of Homo neanderthalensis has changed dramatically. Initially, Neanderthals were seen as primitive brutes. Increasingly, however, Neanderthals are regarded as basically human. New discoveries and technologies have led to an avalanche of data, and as a result of that it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint wha...
Brinker, Ute Bērziņš, Valdis Ceriņa, Aija Gerhards, Guntis Kalniņš, Mārcis Krause-Kyora, Ben Lübke, Harald Meadows, John Meinel, Dietmar Ritchie, Kenneth
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
The Stone Age site Riņņukalns, Latvia, is the only well-stratified shell midden in the Eastern Baltic. In this paper, we present new interdisciplinary results concerning its dating, stratigraphy, features, and finds to shed light on the daily life of a fisher population prior to the introduction of domesticated animals. The undisturbed part of the ...
Andrews, Peter
Published in
Folia Primatologica
For much of their history, fossil apes retained many monkey-like features in posture and body structure. They also occupied a range of habitats, of which tropical forest was only a part, and there is evidence of increasing terrestriality in the fossil record as it is known at present (2019). In the early Miocene (18–20 million years ago, Ma), fossi...
Zeitoun, Valéry Barriel, Véronique Widianto, Harry
Because until 2006 the Liang Bua human fossil remains were not available to the entire paleoanthropological community, the taxonomic position of Homo floresiensis was only a matter of opinion in publications. From the beginning, two schools of thought prevailed, and this situation persists today. One purports that the Liang Bua human series belongs...
Gaur, Rajan
Published in
Resonance
Louis and Mary Leakey are two famous palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists of the twentieth century whose discoveries have had a major influence on our understanding of human evolution. These discoveries were spectacular and brought popular attention to the field of palaeoanthropology, though at times they also courted controversies. Though, deb...
Elliott, Marina Kurki, Helen Weston, Darlene A. Collard, Mark
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Estimating body mass from skeletal material is a key task for many biological anthropologists. As a result, several sets of regression equations have been derived for cranial and postcranial material. The equations have been applied to a wide range of specimens, but several factors suggest they may not be as reliable as generally assumed. Specifica...
Moncel, Marie-Hélène Pleurdeau, David Pinhasi, Ron Yeshurun, Reuven Agapishvili, Tamar Chevalier, Tony Lebourdonnec, François-Xavier Poupeau, Gérard Nomade, Sébastien Jennings, Richard
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This paper presents an overview of the work carried out over the last decade on the Middle Palaeolithic of Georgia by a Georgian-French team, co-directed by the national Museums of Georgia and France. Since 2000, the importance of several Middle Palaeolithic key sites in the Rioni-Kvririla Basin (western Georgia) has been highlighted by this collab...
Moncel, Marie-Hélène Pleurdeau, David Pinhasi, Ron Yeshurun, Reuven Agapishvili, Tamar Chevalier, Tony Le Bourdonnec, François-Xavier Poupeau, Gérard Nomade, Sébastien Jennings, Richard
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This paper presents an overview of the work carried out over the last decade on the Middle Palaeolithic of Georgia by a Georgian-French team, co-directed by the national Museums of Georgia and France. Since 2000, the importance of several Middle Palaeolithic key sites in the Rioni-Kvririla Basin (western Georgia) has been highlighted by this collab...
Killin, Anton
Published in
Biology & Philosophy
This essay reviews Iain Morley’s The Prehistory of Music, an up-to-date and authoritative overview of recent research on evolution and cognition of musicality from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Given the diversity of the project explored, integration of evidence from multiple fields is particularly pressing, required for any novel evolutionary ac...
o'mahoney, thomas
