Evidence for the cooking of fish 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

I Zohar, N Alperson-Afil, N Goren-Inbar… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Although cooking is regarded as a key element in the evolutionary success of the genus
Homo, impacting various biological and social aspects, when intentional cooking first began …

[HTML][HTML] Digital Zooarchaeology: State of the art, challenges, prospects and synergies

A Spyrou, G Nobles, A Hadjikoumis, A Evin… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological
scholarship, providing a means to document and preserve fragile zooarchaeological …

Miocene Snakes of Eurasia A Review of the Evolution of Snake Communities

M Ivanov, D Gower, H Zaher - The Origin and Early Evolutionary …, 2022 - books.google.com
The main features of today's Eurasian snake fauna were assembled during the Miocene (~
23–5 Ma), and so this epoch is critical for understanding the origins and early evolution of …

Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany

D Vasilyan, A Čerňanský, Z Szyndlar, T Mörs - Fossil Record, 2022 - diva-portal.org
The present study describes a rich amphibian and reptilian assemblage from the early
Miocene locality Echzell, Germany. It consists of one allocaudate, five salamander, five frog …

A microvertebrate assemblage from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru group, upper cretaceous) in São Paulo state, Brazil

RC Freitas, A Batezelli, FP Muniz, DC Ribeiro… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Adamantina Formation is the most extensive and taxonomically rich unit within
the Bauru Group (Upper Cretaceous). This unit is considered one of the most complete fossil …

The antiquity of Asian chameleons—first potential Chamaeleonidae and associated squamate fauna from the Lower and Middle Miocene of Anatolia

GL Georgalis, A Čerňanský, F Göktaş… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We here describe fossil remains from three Lower and Middle Miocene localities of Anatolia,
which we tentatively refer to chamaeleonids. The material comprises isolated tooth-bearing …

New data on the Miocene vertebrate assemblage of the Zaysan Basin (Central Asia) with implications for biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography

O Kovalchuk, JD Divay, Z Barkaszi… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Zaysan Basin in Central Asia has a long geological history, and it has
therefore seen major climatic and evolutionary transformations. The Miocene fossil record of …

Late Paleogene herpetofaunas from the crossroads between two continents–new amphibian and reptile remains from the Oligocene of southern Balkans and Anatolia

GL Georgalis, A Čerňanský, S Mayda - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2021 - zora.uzh.ch
We describe here new amphibian and reptile remains from three Oligocene localities of
Turkey. Two of the localities (Kavakdere and Kocayarma) are situated in southeastern …

A fossil record of the Eastern clade of Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) from the late Miocene of Ukraine

EV Syromyatnikova, ES Kovalenko, AA Kaloyan - Geobios, 2021 - Elsevier
The fossil history of worm lizards in Eastern Europe is very patchy because of the small
number of localities and the fragmentary vertebral material available. A new record of the …

Additions to the early Miocene herpetofauna of Weisenau (Germany): urodeles and squamates from a rediscovered historical collection in Italy

A Villa, S Gobbi, M Delfino - PalZ, 2022 - Springer
A small sample of fossil vertebrae of amphibians and reptiles found in the historical
collection of the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Torino is here …