The evolution in the selection of prey made by past humans, especially the Neandertals and
the first anatomically modern humans, has been widely debated. Between Marine Isotope …

Tooth wear analysis techniques (mesowear and microwear) are employed to analyze
dietary traits in proboscideans, perissodactyls and artiodactyls from 33 Pleistocene localities …

We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and
Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling …

Humans are unique in that they expend considerable effort and ingenuity in disposing of the
dead. Some of the recognisable ways we do this are visible in the Palaeolithic archaeology …

Human genetic diversity in southern Europe is higher than in other regions of the continent.
This difference has been attributed to postglacial expansions, the demic diffusion of …

The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

Focal topics for volumes in the series will include systematic paleontology of all vertebrates
(from agnathans to humans), phylogeny reconstruction, functional morphology, Paleolithic …

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating has enormous potential for interpreting
fluvial sediments, because the mineral grains used for OSL dating are abundant in fluvial …

Background The use of human braincases as drinking cups and containers has extensive
historic and ethnographic documentation, but archaeological examples are extremely rare …

Abstract Genetic investigations of Upper Palaeolithic Europe have revealed a complex and
transformative history of human population movements and ancestries, with evidence of …