Different methodologies and modes of calibration have produced disparate, sometimes
irreconcilable, reconstructions of the evolutionary and demographic history of our species …

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the
development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also …

Considerable debate surrounds claims for early evidence of music in the archaeological
record,,,,. Researchers universally accept the existence of complex musical instruments as …

Paleolithic archaeologists conceptualize the uniqueness of Homo sapiens in terms of
“behavioral modernity,” a quality often conflated with behavioral variability. The former is …

The German site of Geißenklösterle is crucial to debates concerning the European Middle to
Upper Palaeolithic transition and the origins of the Aurignacian in Europe. Previous dates …

Despite well over 100 years of research and debate, the origins of art remain contentious,,.
In recent years, abstract depictions have been documented at southern African sites dating …

The first settlement of Europe by modern humans is thought to have occurred between
50,000 and 40,000 calendar years ago (cal BP). In Europe, modern human remains of this …

It is commonly accepted that some of the latest dates for Neanderthal fossils and Mousterian
industries are found south of the Ebro valley in Iberia at ca. 36 ka calBP (calibrated …

This paper combines the data sets available today for 14C-age calibration of the last 60ka.
By stepwise synchronization of paleoclimate signatures, each of these sets of 14C-ages is …

Since the late 1980s, northern Iberia has yielded some of the earliest radiocarbon dated
Aurignacian assemblages in Western Europe, probably produced by anatomically modern …