Questions about the timing, frequency, resource yield, and behavioral and biological
implications of large animal carcass acquisition by early hominins have been a part of the …

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 analysis of bone breakage has always been underrepresented in taphonomic studies.
Analysts, thus, lose the opportunity to resolve an important part of the equifinality related to …

There are many hypotheses regarding influences on the early hominin biogeographic
spread into Eurasia; among them is increased meat-eating. Dmanisi in Georgia is one of the …

The contact goniometer is a commonly used tool in archaeological analysis, despite
suffering from a number of shortcomings due to the physical interaction between the …

Abstract Machine learning (ML) methods constitute a major advance in analytical
archaeology and taphonomy. Their adoption by anthropologists, usually with limited training …

North-eastern Italy was a familiar region for Neanderthal groups, as attested by over 20
Middle Palaeolithic multi-layered sites in caves, rockshelters and at the open, investigated …

Bone retouchers are present in the human toolkit throughout the Lower and Middle
Palaeolithic and appear in many contexts across Europe, sometimes in association with …

Reliable methods are needed to distinguish anthropogenic from non-anthropogenic causes
of proboscidean limb bone breakage in fossil assemblages because of theoretical …

In recent years, reports on bone breakage at archaeological sites have become more
common in the taphonomic literature. The present work tests a recently published method …