The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

The relationship of evolution with diet and environment can provide insights into modern
disease. Fossil evidence shows apes, and early human ancestors were fruit eaters living in …

Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement
and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of …

Genetic and fragmented palaeoanthropological data suggest that Denisovans were once
widely distributed across eastern Eurasia,–. Despite limited archaeological evidence, this …

Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of
the Pleistocene, present in Eurasian landscapes between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago …

One of the unanswered questions in Palaeolithic studies is how Neanderthals adapted their
subsistence strategies by changing their diet at such a late stage of their existence …

The basic aims and requirements of recording and analysis of disarticulated1 and
commingled2 human bone have changed little from those presented in the original 2004 …

Over 60 years ago, stone tools and remains of megafauna were discovered on the
Southeast Asian islands of Flores, Sulawesi and Luzon, and a Middle Pleistocene …

The peopling of the Americas and human interaction with the Pleistocene megafauna in
South America remain hotly debated. The Santa Elina rock shelter in Central Brazil shows …

Abstract During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art
and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship …