The systematic exploitation of marine foods by terrestrial mammals lacking aquatic
morphologies is rare. Widespread ethnographic and archaeological evidence from many …

Twenty‐one years ago, a landmark exploration of mitochondrial DNA diversity popularized
the idea of a recent African origin for all living humans. 1 The ancestral African population …

Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Neanderthals and Modern Humans develops the theme of the close relationship between
climate change, ecological change and biogeographical patterns in humans during the …

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died
out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we …

The Ysterfontein 1 rock shelter (33° 20'S, 18° 09'E) is located in the eponymous town, on the
west coast of South Africa, roughly 70 km north-northwest of Cape Town. The floor is diorite …

Data from the Middle Paleolithic site of Pech de lAz IV (France) indicate the deliberate
production of small flakes that appear to have been used in an unretouched state. Such …

В монографии рассмотрены ключевые проблемы перехода от среднего к верхнему
палеолиту на территории Евразии и Африки. Представлены результаты новейших …

North Africa is quickly emerging as one of the more important regions yielding information
on the origins of modern Homo sapiens. Associated with significant fossil hominin remains …