Evidence of humans in North America during the last glacial maximum

MR Bennett, D Bustos, JS Pigati, KB Springer… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

One small step: A review of Plio‐Pleistocene hominin foot evolution

J DeSilva, E McNutt, J Benoit… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bipedalism is a hallmark of being human and the human foot is modified to reflect this
unique form of locomotion. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with calling the human foot “a …

Pleistocene vertebrate tracksites on the Cape south coast of South Africa and their potential palaeoecological implications

CW Helm, HC Cawthra, RM Cowling… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Body fossil remains usually provide the main palaeontological resource for
palaeoecological studies. Ichnology has the capacity to independently complement such …

A rapid and cost-effective pipeline for digitization of museum specimens with 3D photogrammetry

JJ Medina, JM Maley, S Sannapareddy, NN Medina… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Natural history collections are yielding more information as digitization brings specimen data
to researchers, connects specimens across museums, and as new technologies allow for …

[HTML][HTML] Earliest parietal art: Hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet

DD Zhang, MR Bennett, H Cheng, L Wang, H Zhang… - Science Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions
that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft travertine. The …

A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe

B Vila, A Selles, M Moreno-Azanza… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the last sauropod dinosaur communities in Europe and their evolution during
the final 15 million years of the Cretaceous have become a complex phylogenetic and …

New evidence of prehistoric human activity on the central Tibetan plateau during the early to middle Holocene

L Wang, H Zhang, DD Zhang, H Cheng… - The …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The cold and hypoxic environment of the Tibetan Plateau was a major challenge for its
prehistoric human occupants. The earliest known hominin occupation (or visitation) of the …

Photogrammetry in ichnology: 3D model generation, visualisation, and data extraction

JN Lallensack, M Buchwitz, A Romilio - 2020 - eartharxiv.org
3D digitisation of surfaces became a standard procedure in ichnology in recent years. 3D
models allow not only for the digital preservation of vulnerable ichnological records, but also …

Biting in the Miocene seas: estimation of the bite force of the macroraptorial sperm whale Zygophyseter varolai using finite element analysis

E Peri, PL Falkingham, A Collareta, G Bianucci - Historical Biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Differing from the extant physeteroids, macroraptorial sperm whales are currently regarded
as apex predators of the Miocene seas based on several morphofunctional observations …

A machine learning approach for the discrimination of theropod and ornithischian dinosaur tracks

JN Lallensack, A Romilio… - Journal of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fossil tracks are important palaeobiological data sources. The quantitative analysis of their
shape, however, has been hampered by their high variability and lack of discrete margins …