The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and
debate,–. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa …

The interior of the Iberian Peninsula has few Middle Palaeolithic sites, especially when
compared to other areas of the Mediterranean Basin and the northern Spanish region. Few …

Border Cave (BC) has accumulated over 200,000 years of archaeological deposits that
document remarkable evidence of human behaviour during the Middle and Later Stone Age …

We describe the physical context of the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave, South
Africa, which contains the fossils of Homo naledi. Approximately 1550 specimens of hominin …

The remains of 61 individuals buried in the cemetery of Jebel Sahaba (site 117) offer unique
and substantial evidence to the emergence of violence in the Nile Valley at the end of the …

Gnawing from animal species is a common alteration to human bones and comes under
frequent forensic analysis in order to separate these effects from human-caused trauma and …

Abstract The Lower Paleolithic locality of Schöningen 13 II-4 is famous for the discovery of
wooden spears found amongst the butchered remains of numerous horses and other large …

Fully shaped, morphologically standardized bone tools are generally considered reliable
indicators of the emergence of modern behavior. We report the discovery of 23 double …

Gaps and holes derived from different sources represent a major problem for archaeological
bone artifacts, as they lead to their weakness. Cryogel materials have become vital in …

Bioerosion trace fossils in bones are defined as biogenic structures that cut or destroy hard
bone tissue as the result of mechanical and/or chemical processes. Under the premise that …