The spread of anatomically modern humans (AMH) into Europe occurred when shifts in the
North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation triggered a series of large and abrupt …

Radiocarbon dating has been fundamental to the study of human cultural and biological
development over the past 50,000 yr. Two recent developments in the methodology of …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

The use of stable isotope ratio analysis in archaeology has exploded over the past few
decades to the point where it is now an established tool that is routinely used to investigate …

In recent years, there has been a tendency to correlate the origin of modern culture and
language with that of anatomically modern humans. Here we discuss this correlation in the …

Our knowledge of the migration routes of the first anatomically modern populations
colonising the European territory at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, of their degree …

The late survival of archaic hominin populations and their long contemporaneity with
modern humans is now clear for southeast Asia. In Europe the extinction of the …

What role did fluctuations play in biomass availability for secondary consumers in the
disappearance of Neanderthals and the survival of modern humans? To answer this, we …

The earliest known personal ornaments come from the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa,
c. 75,000 years ago, and are associated with anatomically modern humans. In Europe, such …

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 …