Domestic cattle have contributed both to the rise of civilizations and the global loss of
biodiversity, but the timing and mechanism of their domestication history remain to be fully …

Geometric morphometrics can effectively distinguish isolated third lower molars of present-
day sheep and goat, but its applicability to archaeological specimens has yet to be …

Sheep and goat are often herded together and show morphological similarities in their
skeleton. Being able to identify archaeological remains of these two taxa to species level is …

Objectives The taxonomic status of isolated hominoid teeth from the Asian Pleistocene has
long been controversial due to difficulties distinguishing between pongine and hominin …

Taxonomy places domesticated cattle within the mammalian Bovidae family, which belongs
to the order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates. The Bovidae first appeared in the Miocene …

Discrete dental traits are used as proxies for biological relatedness among modern human
populations and for alpha taxonomy and phylogeny reconstruction within the hominin clade …

Abstract The Middle Pleistocene represents a period of critical importance in human
evolution, marked by encephalisation and dental reduction, and increasing diversification of …

Teeth of late Miocene bovids referred to Bovini and “Boselaphini” were subjected to enamel
stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis to test paleoecological reconstructions based on …

Carabelli's trait is a morphological feature that frequently occurs on the mesiolingual aspect
of Homo sapiens upper molars. Similar structures also referred to as Carabelli's trait have …

Recently, palaeogenetics encountered enormous success when parts of the nuclear
genomes of mammoth and Neanderthal man were analysed. Their bones, however, had …