Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France

L Slimak, C Zanolli, T Higham, M Frouin… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia,
such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their …

Earliest known human burial in Africa

M Martinón-Torres, F d'Errico, E Santos, A Álvaro Gallo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and
debate,–. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa …

The middle Pleistocene (MIS 12) human dental remains from Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Italy. A comparative high resolution …

C Zanolli, M Martinón-Torres, F Bernardini, G Boschian… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The penecontemporaneous Middle Pleistocene sites of Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and
Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), set c. 450 km apart in central and northeastern Italy …

Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals

J Blinkhorn, C Zanolli, T Compton, HS Groucutt… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Neanderthals occurred widely across north Eurasian landscapes, but between~ 70 and 50
thousand years ago (ka) they expanded southwards into the Levant, which had previously …

Inner tooth morphology of Homo erectus from Zhoukoudian. New evidence from an old collection housed at Uppsala University, Sweden

C Zanolli, L Pan, J Dumoncel, O Kullmer… - Journal of Human …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Locality 1, in the Lower Cave of the Zhoukoudian cave complex, China, is one of
the most important Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological and archaeological sites …

Dental topography of the Oligocene anthropoids Aegyptopithecus zeuxis and Apidium phiomense: Paleodietary insights from analysis of wear series

PE Morse, JD Pampush, RF Kay - Journal of human evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
Fossil primate dietary inference is enhanced when ascertained through multiple, distinct
proxies. Dental topography can be used to assess changes in occlusal morphology with …

Tooth crown tissue proportions and enamel thickness in Early Pleistocene Homo antecessor molars (Atapuerca, Spain)

L Martín-Francés, M Martinón-Torres… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Tooth crown tissue proportions and enamel thickness distribution are considered reliable
characters for inferring taxonomic identity, phylogenetic relationships, dietary and …

A reassessment of the distinctiveness of dryopithecine genera from the Iberian Miocene based on enamel-dentine junction geometric morphometric analyses

C Zanolli, F Bouchet, J Fortuny, F Bernardini… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
A vast diversity of catarrhines primates has been uncovered in the Middle to Late Miocene
(12.5–9.6 Ma) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (northeastern Spain), including several hominid …

Crown tissue proportions and enamel thickness distribution in the Middle Pleistocene hominin molars from Sima de los Huesos (SH) population (Atapuerca, Spain)

L Martín-Francés, M Martinón-Torres… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Dental enamel thickness, topography, growth and development vary among hominins. In
Homo, the thickness of dental enamel in most Pleistocene hominins display variations from …

Inner morphological and metric characterization of the molar remains from the Montmaurin-La Niche mandible: The Neanderthal signal

MM de Pinillos, L Martín-Francés, JMB de Castro… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here, we present a metric and morphological study of the molar remains from the
Montmaurin-La Niche mandible by means of microcomputed tomography. According to the …