Multiple large-bodied species went extinct during the Pleistocene. Changing climates and/or
human hunting are the main hypotheses used to explain these extinctions. We studied the …

Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into Eurasia multiple times in the Middle and Late
Pleistocene. The route, across northeastern Africa into the Levant, is a viable terrestrial …

Abstract The Late Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils from the Xujiayao site in northern
China have been closely studied in light of their morphological variability. However, all …

Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at
the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior …

Complete Neanderthal skeletons are almost unique findings. A very well-preserved
specimen of this kind was discovered in 1993 in the deepest recesses of a karstic system …

Prior to the advent of whole-genome sequencing in ancient humans, the likelihood that
Homo sapiens and Neanderthals admixed has long been debated, mostly on the basis of …

It is often assumed that both our species and the last common ancestor (LCA) of
Neanderthals and modern humans originated in Africa, with all Eurasian Pleistocene …

Evidence suggests that the Neanderthal and Homo sapiens lineages began diverging about
600,000 years ago, evolving largely separately in Eurasia and Africa after that time. Around …

Major changes in the technological, economic, and social behavior of Middle Pleistocene
hominins occurred at the onset of the Middle Paleolithic, 400–200 ka. However, until …