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 penecontemporaneous Middle Pleistocene sites of Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), set c. 450 km apart in central and northeastern Italy …
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 …
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 …
Fossil primate dietary inference is enhanced when ascertained through multiple, distinct proxies. Dental topography can be used to assess changes in occlusal morphology with …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …