Un tema relevante durante el período fundacional de la paleoantropología fue el postulado de la antigüedad terciaria de la humanidad. Las primeras propuestas se basaban en supuestas evidencias de industria lítica (eolitos). La cuestión se complicó con el descubrimiento de diversos fósiles humanos que fueron datados como pliocenos o incluso de mayor...
Published in Journal of World Prehistory
Based on the most current information available on the Late Pleistocene palaeoanthropology of Europe, this paper presents a revolutionary reassessment of the dominant models. The notions of an introduction of African technologies and the full replacement of resident robust hominins are rejected. It is demonstrated that there exists no evidence that...
Published in Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Palaeoanthropology is the multidisciplinary branch of science uniting the many diverse fields that contribute to understanding the evolution and prehistory of human beings, Homo sapiens, and their extinct relatives. These hominoid primates have traditionally been classified together in their own zoological family, Hominidae, to the exclusion of the...
Published in Biology & Philosophy
Psychological evidence suggests that laypeople understand the world around them in terms of intuitive ontologies which describe broad categories of objects in the world, such as ‘person’, ‘artefact’ and ‘animal’. However, because intuitive ontologies are the result of natural selection, they only need to be adaptive; this does not guarantee that th...
Published in Human Evolution
In this paper the authors analize the main physical and cultural changes of human species from its first moments to the future with an evolutionary perspective. They consider physical items like bipedalism, fire, language or tool production, but also some cultural ones like burials, art or changes on the prehistoric group’s economy, food production...
Se presentan en este artículo los resultados del análisis del registro funerario del yacimiento de la Edad del Bronce de Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén) y su relación con la organización del espacio al interior del mismo poblado. Se presta especial atención a la situación de las tumbas bajo las viviendas, a los ajuares en ellas depositados y a ...
