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Towards an understanding of the different uses of sheep/goat and hare in Iberian South-Western Bronze Age funerary contexts
New article published by Costa, C., Baptista, L., Gomes, S., Rodrigues, Z., & Santos, D. in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Faunal remains associated with human burials are a well-known practice in Southern Portugal during the Middle Bronze Age (end of the third millennium until the first half of the second millennium BC). The funerary…
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The Exceptional Presence of Megaloceros giganteus in North-Eastern Iberia and Its Palaeoecological Implications: The Case of Teixoneres Cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain)
New article published by Uzunidis, A., Rivals, F., Rufà, A., Blasco, R., & Rosell, J. in Diversity . In this article we announce the discovery of the first remains of Megaloceros giganteus found in Catalonia (north-eastern Iberia) from the Late Pleistocene: a fragment of maxillary. Dated between 35,000 and 37,000 cal BP, it is also among the youngest…
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A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania
New article published by Baquedano, E., Arsuaga, J. L., Pérez-González, A., Laplana, C., Márquez, B., Huguet, R., Gómez-Soler, S., Villaescusa, L., Galindo-Pellicena, M. Á., Rodríguez, L., García-González, R., Ortega, M.-C., Martín-Perea, D. M., Ortega, A. I., Hernández-Vivanco, L., Ruiz-Liso, G., Gómez-Hernanz, J., Alonso-Martín, J. I., Abrunhosa, A., … Higham, T., in Nature Human Behaviour. This…
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Changes in dental wear magnitude in the last ∼8000 years in southwestern Iberia
New article published by Godinho, R. M., Umbelino, C., Garcia, S., & Gonçalves, C., in Archives of Oral Biology. This study examines changes in dental wear magnitude in the past ∼8000 years, i.e., since Mesolithic until the 19th century, in southwestern Iberia. Thus, it encompasses the transition from hunting-gathering to agro-pastoralism, and then to the industrialization…
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A ‘Family of Wear’: Traceological Patterns on Pebbles Used for Burnishing Pots and Processing Other Plastic Mineral Matters
New article published by Dubreuil, L., Robitaille, J., Gonzalez-Urquijo, J., Marreiros, J., & Stroulia, A. in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. The development of technologies related to plastic mineral matters (PMM), including clay, mud, and plaster, represents a major step in cultural evolution because of their important repercussions for food processing, storage, transportation, construction, and…
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New quantitative method for dental wear analysis of small mammals
New article published by Bañuls-Cardona, S., Blasco, R., Rosell, J., Rufà, A., Vallverdú, J. & Rivals, F. in Scientific Reports. The application of dental wear study to murids has always been ruled out because of their omnivorous diet, which does not leave significant wear on the dentition. Nevertheless, in our work we select Apodemus sylvaticus (wood mouse) as the…
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Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique
New article published by Lüdecke T., Leichliter J. N., Aldeias V., Bamford M.K., Biro D., Braun D.R., Capelli C., Cybulski, J. Duprey N.N., Ferreira da Silva M.J., Foreman A.D, Habermann J.H., Haug G.H., Martínez F.I, Mathe J., Mulch A., Sigman D.M., Vonhof H., Bobe R., Carvalho S. & Martinez-Garcia, A., in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.…
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Hunter-gatherer environments at the Late Pleistocene sites of Mwanganda’s Village and Bruce, northern Malawi
New article published by Schilt, F., Miller, C.E., Wright, D.K., Mentzer, S.M., Mercader, J., Moss, P., Choi J.-H., Siljedal, G., Clark, S., Mwambwiga, A., Thomas, K., Barbieri, A., Kalibam, P., Gomani-Chindebvu E., Thompson, J.C., in Quaternary Science Reviews. Mwanganda’s Village (MGD) and Bruce (BRU) are two open-air site complexes in northern Malawi with deposits dating to…
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The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal)
New article published by Barbieri, A., Regala, F. T., Cascalheira, J., & Bicho, N., in Archaeological Prospection. Until recently, evidence of Neanderthal cave use in the Algarve (Southern Portugal) came only from the site of Ibn Ammar. Over the last couple of years, archaeological excavations inside another cave, Gruta da Companheira, yielded Mousterian stone tools associated…
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Post-LGM environments and foragers on the move: New data from the lower Altmühl Valley (Franconian Jura, SE Germany)
New article published by Barbieri, A., Maier, A., Lauer, T., Mischka, C., Hattermann, M., & Uthmeier, T., in Journal of Human Evolution. After the Last Glacial Maximum, the Swabian and Franconian Jura (in SW and SE Germany, respectively) were repopulated by Magdalenian hunter-gatherers within the same communication network. However, while the Magdalenian settlement of the…