Category: News
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Primate Archaeology
Article by Almeida-Warren, K., & Pascual-Garrido, A., in Reference Module in Social Sciences. Primate archaeology is a novel field that combines the use of archaeological methods with animal behavior approaches to study non-human primates and their technology. At the intersection of primatology and archaeology, this burgeoning field is providing a new comparative perspective to the study…
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Txina-Txina and the Later Stone Age of the Massingir Region, Mozambique
New Article by Bicho, N., Cascalheira, J., Haws, J., Gomes, A., & Raja, M., in Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. The open-air site of Txina-Txina is located in western Mozambique, near the border of South Africa, in the Limpopo National Park, in the Gaza Province. The site lies at −23.894 S, 31.912 E on…
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Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago
New Article by Barham, L., Duller, G. A. T., Candy, I., Scott, C., Cartwright, C. R., Peterson, J. R., Kabukcu, C., Chapot, M. S., Melia, F., Rots, V., George, N., Taipale, N., Gethin, P., & Nkombwe, P. , in Nature. Wood artefacts rarely survive from the Early Stone Age since they require exceptional conditions for preservation;…
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The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
New Article by Hallinan, E., & Marks, A. E. in Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared point…
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Primate archaeology 3.0
New Article by Pascual‐Garrido, A., Carvalho, S., & Almeida‐Warren, K. in American Journal of Biological Anthropology. The new field of primate archaeology investigates the technological behavior and material record of nonhuman primates, providing valuable comparative data on our understanding of human technological evolution. Yet, paralleling hominin archaeology, the field is largely biased toward the analysis of…
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The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift
New publication from the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa describes the first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique After four field seasons, extensive surveys, and new approaches in the search of paleontological sites, a new publication from the Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa describes the first Miocene fossils from…
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A Third Neanderthal Individual from La Ferrassie Dated to the End of the Middle Palaeolithic
New Article by Guérin, G., Aldeias, V., Baumgarten, F., Goldberg, P., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Lahaye, C., Madelaine, S., Maureille, B., Philippe, A. & Sandgathe, D., in PaleoAnthropology. The Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie (SW France) has been extensively studied since its discovery during the 19th century. In addition to a large sequence including Middle and Upper Paleolithic…
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Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition
New Article by Sinet-Mathiot, V., Rendu, W., Steele, T. E., Spasov, R., Madelaine, S., Renou, S., Soulier, M.-C., Martisius, N. L., Aldeias, V., Endarova, E., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S. J. P., Rezek, Z., Sandgathe, D., Sirakov, N., Sirakova, S., Soressi, M., Tsanova, T., Turq, A., … Smith, G. M., in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Understanding…
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Contact materials: The ‘Other’ in experimental use-wear studies
New editorial paper special issue by Marreiros, J., Thaler, U., & Macdonald, D. A., in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Archaeological research focuses on a comprehensive understanding of when, how, and why past human populations changed their behaviour over time. Understanding these processes is fundamental to recognising the origins and character of behavioural choices that…
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A deep learning-based taphonomical approach to distinguish the modifying agent in the Late Pleistocene site of Toll Cave (Barcelona, Spain)
New Article by Pizarro-Monzo, M., Rosell, J., Rufà, A., Rivals, F., & Blasco, R., in Historical Biology. One of the most widely used methods to associate lithic tools and bone assemblage in archaeological sites is the identification of cut-marks. However, the identification of these marks is still problematic in some localities on account of the…