Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

We propose a population model for Middle Pleistocene Europe that is based on
demographic “sources” and “sinks”. The former were a small number of “core” or populations …

INTRODUCTION The study of hominin history has progressed through both archaeological
and genetic insights. Although DNA sequencing from hominin skeletal remains allows the …

Excavations of a complex of caves in the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain have
unearthed hominin fossils that range in age from the early Pleistocene to the Holocene. One …

Seventeen Middle Pleistocene crania from the Sima de los Huesos site (Atapuerca, Spain)
are analyzed, including seven new specimens. This sample makes it possible to thoroughly …

Palaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. In this
book, which succeeds and replaces The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe, published by …

Human fossil remains recovered from the TD6 level (Aurora stratum) of the lower
Pleistocene cave site of Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain, exhibit a unique …

The earliest hominin occupation of Europe is one of the most debated topics in
palaeoanthropology. However, the purportedly oldest of the Early Pleistocene sites in …

The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries.
The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves …

The fossil record suggests that modern human morphology evolved in Africa between
150,000 and 50,000 years ago, when the sole inhabitants of Eurasia were the Neanderthals …