Lithic assemblages immediately following the Howiesons Poort, often loosely referred to as
the 'post-Howiesons Poort'or MSA III, have attracted relatively little attention when compared …

The identification of material culture variability remains an important goal in archaeology, as
such variability is commonly coupled with interpretations of cultural transmission and …

Originally developed for the quantitative analysis of organismal shapes, both two‐
dimensional (2D) and 3D geometric morphometric methods (GMMs) have recently gained …

Comparative macro-archaeological investigations of the human deep past rely on the
availability of unified, quality-checked datasets integrating different layers of observation …

Evaluating error that arises through the aggregation of data recorded by multiple observers
is a key consideration in many metric and geometric morphometric analyses of stone tool …

Archaeological systematics, together with spatial and chronological information, are
commonly used to infer cultural evolutionary dynamics in the past. For the study of the …

Introduction Plants undergo various natural changes that dramatically modify their genomes.
One is polyploidization and the second is hybridization. Both are regarded as key factors in …

Abstract The El Jobo projectile points represent a distinctive ballistic innovation of Late
Pleistocene Neotropical groups. This technology, characterized by its fusiform/lanceolate …

Although it was originally thought that our own species, Homo sapiens, evolved from a
single population in Africa, patterns of diversity in fossil, archaeological, and genetic data …

Being a conserved epigenetic mark, 5-methylcytosine (5mC) is involved in many important
biological processes, including heterochromatin formation, defence against transposon …