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ICArEHB at FIC.A – Festival Internacional de Ciência
FIC.A – Festival Internacional de Ciência took place from the 12th to the 17th October 2021, at the Marquês de Pombal Palace and Gardens in Oeiras. ICArEHB participaed in this event a stand, talks, workshops and many interesting and engaging activities with our Researchers and PhD Students.
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“Simply red? A systematic colour-based method for identifying archaeological fires”
New article published by Cruz Ferro-Vázquez, Carolina Mallol, Vera Aldeias in Geoarchaeology. The identification and characterization of hearths is crucial for reconstructing the history of fire use and pyrotechnology. In addition to ashes and charcoals, an active fire will also produce alterations of the underlying substrate to varying degrees. To date, however, few studies have…
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“Automated audiovisual behavior recognition in wild primates”
New article published by Max Bain, Arsha Nagrani, Daniel Schofield, Sophie Berdugo, Joana Bessa, Jake Owen, Kimberley J Hockings, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Misato Hayashi, Dora Biro, Susana Carvalho, Andrew Zisserman, in Science Advances. Large video datasets of wild animal behavior are crucial to produce longitudinal research and accelerate conservation efforts; however, large-scale behavior analyses continue to…
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“Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)”
New article published by Geoff M. Smith, Rosen Spasov, Naomi L. Martisius, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Vera Aldeias, Zeljko Rezek, Karen Ruebens, Sarah Pederzani, Shannon P. McPherron, Svoboda Sirakova, Nikolay Sirakov, Tsenka Tsanova, Jean-Jacques Hublin, in Journal of Human Evolution. The behavioral dynamics underlying the expansion of Homo sapiens into Europe remains a crucial topic in human evolution. Owing…
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“The early Aurignacian at Lapa do Picareiro really is that old: A comment on ‘The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model”
New article published by Jonathan A.Haws, Michael M. Benedetti, Nuno F. Bicho, João Cascalheira, M. Grace Ellis, Milena M. Carvalho, Lukas Friedl, Telmo Pereira and SahraTalamo in Quaternary Science Reviews. In his review of the MP-UP transition in Iberia, Zilhão (2021: 25) mistakenly altered the data presented in two of our recent publications (Benedetti et al., 2019; Haws et al., 2020) using an imprecise…
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? The Archaeologist’s Notebook: You can’t spell Education without Science
The Archaeologist’s Notebook, the ICArEHB PhD students’ Blog has a new article: “You can’t spell Education without Science”. Read here: https://archaeologists-notebook.icarehb.com/2021/11/10/you-cant-spell-education-without-science/
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“Direct evidence for increased disease resistance in polyandrous broods exists only in eusocial Hymenoptera”
New article published by D. M. Soper, A. K. E. Ekroth & M. J. F. Martins in BMC Ecology and Evolution. The ‘genetic diversity’ hypothesis posits that polyandry evolved as a mechanism to increase genetic diversity within broods. One extension of this hypothesis is the ‘genetic diversity for disease resistance’ hypothesis (GDDRH). Originally designed for eusocial Hymenoptera, GDDRH…
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“Estimating origination times from the early hominin fossil record”
New article published by René Bobe and Bernard Wood in Evolutionary Anthropology. The age of the earliest recovered fossil evidence of a hominin taxon is all too often equated with that taxon’s origination. However, the earliest known fossil record nearly always postdates, sometimes by a substantial period of time, the true origination of a taxon.…
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“Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe”
New article published by Sarah Pederzani, Kate Britton, Vera Aldeias, et al. in Science Advances. The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent. Current models propose that these expansions occurred only during episodes of warm climate, based on age…
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“Territories of Faith: 1000 Years of Landscape Multifunctionality in Santa Mariña de Augas Santas (NW Spain)”
New article published by Cruz Ferro-Vázquez, Rebeca Blanco-Rotea, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez, Sonia García-Rodríguez and Marco V. García Quintela in Land. Landscape multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as an important aspect in sustainability and developmental debates. Yet, how and why a multifunctional landscape configuration develops over time has not been sufficiently studied. Here we present the geoarchaeological investigation…