Progress in computing capabilities has enhanced science in many ways. In recent years,
various branches of machine learning have been the key facilitators in forging new paths …

This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-
Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter's archaeological assemblage …

Fire ecology is a complex discipline that can only be understood by integrating biological,
physical, and social sciences. The science of fire ecology explores wildland fire's …

Deep learning is a powerful tool for exploring large datasets and discovering new patterns.
This work presents an account of a metric learning-based deep convolutional neural …

Pyrotechnology is a key element of hominin evolution. The identification of fire in early
hominin sites relies primarily on an initial visual assessment of artifacts' physical alterations …

We analyze the influence of hearth location and smoke dispersal on potential activity areas
at Lower Paleolithic Lazaret Cave, France, focusing on archaeostratigraphic unit UA25 …

Machine learning (ML), being now widely accessible to the research community at large,
has fostered a proliferation of new and striking applications of these emergent mathematical …

Biased skeletal part representation is a key element for making inferences about transport
decisions, carcass procurement, and use patterns in anthropogenic accumulations. In the …

We examined lithic artifacts from the late Neanderthal site Sesselfelsgrotte (Bavaria,
Germany) in order to evaluate the possibility of fire use and intentional flint heat treatment …

During the reanalysis of the finds from Jelinek's and Ronen's excavations at Tabun Cave,
Israel, we encountered a cobble bearing traces of mechanical alterations similar to those …