Disease and trauma to the dentition and supporting tissues can reveal information about the
lives of past peoples. Consistency in reporting dental pathology facilitates comparisons …

Competing theories have posited roles for foetal androgen exposure in the development of
human handedness. However, due to practical and ethical considerations, few studies have …

[ES] Tras 13 campañas de excavación metódica, y una vez concluidos definitivamente los
trabajos de campo en la Galería del Osario de la cueva de El Sidrón (Asturias, España), se …

Twenty-nine carpal bones of Homo neanderthalensis have been recovered from the site of
El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain) during excavations between 1994 and 2009, alongside∼ 2500 …

For many years, the brain was thought to be an independent and autonomous machine, with
a structure that was largely determined by internal factors. Eventually, we finally recognized …

Fossil hominids often processed material held between their upper and lower teeth. Pulling
with one hand and cutting with the other, they occasionally left impact cut marks on the lip …

The analysis of activity-related dental wear patterns in prehistoric anatomically modern
humans and modern hunter-gatherers has shown sex differences attributable to a gendered …

Although hand grip strength is critical to the daily lives of humans and our arboreal great ape
relatives, the human hand has changed in form and function throughout our evolution due to …

Prehistoric dental treatments were extremely rare and the few documented cases are known
from the Neolithic, when the adoption of early farming culture caused an increase of carious …

Objectives A variety of mechanical processes can result in antemortem dental chipping. In
this study, chipping data in the teeth of Homo naledi are compared with those of other …