Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments

V Slon, C Hopfe, CL Weiß, F Mafessoni… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Although a rich record of Pleistocene human-associated archaeological assemblages
exists, the scarcity of hominin fossils often impedes the understanding of which hominins …

[HTML][HTML] Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage

X Ni, Q Ji, W Wu, Q Shao, Y Ji, C Zhang, L Liang, J Ge… - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
It has recently become clear that several human lineages coexisted with Homo sapiens
during the late Middle and Late Pleistocene. Here, we report an archaic human fossil that …

Palaeoenvironment and dating of the Early Acheulean localities from the Somme River basin (Northern France): new discoveries from the high terrace at Abbeville …

P Antoine, MH Moncel, N Limondin-Lozouet… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Dating the earliest human occupations in Western Europe and reconstructing links with
climatic and environmental constraints is a central issue in Quaternary studies. Amongst the …

Metric and morphological comparison between the Arago (France) and Atapuerca-Sima de los Huesos (Spain) dental samples, and the origin of Neanderthals

JMB de Castro, M Martinón-Torres… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The variability observed in the growing Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil record of Europe
continues to trigger much debate on taxonomic issues and the biological processes that …

New middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal)

J Daura, M Sanz, JL Arsuaga… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The Middle Pleistocene is a crucial time period for studying human evolution in Europe,
because it marks the appearance of both fossil hominins ancestral to the later Neandertals …

New bracketing luminescence ages constrain the Sima de los Huesos hominin fossils (Atapuerca, Spain) to MIS 12

M Demuro, LJ Arnold, A Aranburu, N Sala… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent chronological studies of the Sima de los Huesos (SH) hominin fossil site, Atapuerca,
Spain, have established a close minimum age of at least 430 ka for sedimentary material …

Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

Y Zaidner, L Centi, M Prévost, N Mercier, C Falguères… - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 …

New chronological data (ESR and ESR/U‐series) for the earliest Acheulian sites of north‐western Europe

P Voinchet, D Moreno, JJ Bahain… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence suggests that bifacial technology (Acheulian, Mode 2) arrived in Europe
during the early Middle Pleistocene, ie significantly earlier than previously proposed. In …

Barranc de la Boella (Catalonia, Spain): an Acheulean elephant butchering site from the European late Early Pleistocene

M Mosquera, P Saladié, A Ollé… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Evidence of late Early Pleistocene elephant butchery activity has been
excavated in the Pit 1 locality at Barranc de la Boella (Catalonia, Spain). The fossil …

The middle Pleistocene (MIS 12) human dental remains from Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Italy. A comparative high resolution …

C Zanolli, M Martinón-Torres, F Bernardini, G Boschian… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The penecontemporaneous Middle Pleistocene sites of Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and
Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), set c. 450 km apart in central and northeastern Italy …