Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave

H Xia, D Zhang, J Wang, Z Fagernäs, T Li, Y Li, J Yao… - nature, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic and fragmented palaeoanthropological data suggest that Denisovans were once
widely distributed across eastern Eurasia,–. Despite limited archaeological evidence, this …

Mapping interactions of H. neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens from the fossil and genetic records

C Stringer, L Crété - PaleoAnthropology, 2022 - ub31.uni-tuebingen.de
Evidence suggests that the Neanderthal and Homo sapiens lineages began diverging about
600,000 years ago, evolving largely separately in Eurasia and Africa after that time. Around …

Comparing extraction method efficiency for high-throughput palaeoproteomic bone species identification

D Mylopotamitaki, FS Harking, AJ Taurozzi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
High-throughput proteomic analysis of archaeological skeletal remains provides information
about past fauna community compositions and species dispersals in time and space …

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

GM Smith, K Ruebens, EI Zavala… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Recent excavations at Ranis (Germany) identified an early dispersal of Homo
sapiens into the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Here we integrate results …

Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition

V Sinet-Mathiot, W Rendu, TE Steele, R Spasov… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Understanding Palaeolithic hominin subsistence strategies requires the comprehensive
taxonomic identification of faunal remains. The high fragmentation of Late Pleistocene …

Combining traceological analysis and ZooMS on Early Neolithic bone artefacts from the cave of Coro Trasito, NE Iberian Peninsula: Cervidae used equally to …

J Hansen, A Sierra, S Mata, E Gassiot Ballbè… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Few studies have combined the analysis of use-wear traces, traceology, and the proteomic
taxonomic identification method Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) …

Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter‐Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone

K Ruebens, GM Smith, H Fewlass… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pleistocene faunal assemblages are often highly fragmented, hindering taxonomic
identifications and interpretive potentials. In this paper, we apply four different …

Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic industry at Cueva Millán in the hinterlands of Iberia

P Sánchez-Yustos, AB Marín-Arroyo, LJ Arnold… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The extended period of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Europe
coincided with the emergence of regionally distinctive lithic industries, signalling the onset of …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of human dispersal during Aurignacian on pan-European scale

Y Shao, C Wegener, K Klein, I Schmidt… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Aurignacian is the first techno-complex related with certainty to Anatomically Modern
Humans in Europe. Studies show that they appeared around 43-42 kyr cal BP and …

[HTML][HTML] Human Membership in the Large Carnivore Guild: Was It Always" Tooth and Claw"?

JD Speth - Quaternary Environments and Humans, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom holds that when humans began acquiring meat on a regular basis,
whether by hunting or by scavenging, they became part of the large carnivore guild and, as …