This paper examines shape and size variability in Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA)
handaxes and compares the observed patterns to those in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian …

Morphometrics, a branch of morphology, represents the study of size and shape
components of biological form and their variation in the population. Assessment of optic disc …

The analysis of cranial shape variation in human populations, present or past, is an area of
anthropological research in which geometric morphometric techniques are frequently and …

The fossil record of the living great apes is poor. New fossils from undocumented areas,
particularly the equatorial forested habitats of extant hominoids, are therefore crucial for …

In 2004, a new hominin species, Homo floresiensis, was described from Late Pleistocene
cave deposits at Liang Bua, Flores. H. floresiensis was remarkable for its small body-size …

The chin, or mentum osseum, is one of the most distinctive anatomical traits of modern
humans. A variety of hypotheses for the adaptive value of the chin have been proposed …

Abstract 'Still Bay'is the name given to a cultural phase within the southern African Middle
Stone Age, which remains critical to our understanding of modern human behavioural …

Resharpening has long played a confusing role in the history of research on lithic variability.
In this chapter, I argue that, far from confounding issues of variability, resharpening can be …

In the last few decades, new discoveries have pushed the beginning of the biface-rich
European Acheulian from 500 thousand years (ka) ago back to at least 700 ka, and possibly …

Sagittal otoliths of the yellowstripe goatfish Mulloidichthys flavolineatus were analysed in
order to compare Reunion Island fish stocks with those of Mauritius (south‐west Indian …