Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates

K Hardy, H Bocherens, JB Miller, L Copeland - Journal of Human Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
Evidence for plants rarely survives on Paleolithic sites, while animal bones and
biomolecular analyses suggest animal produce was important to hominin populations …

Evaluating the transitional mosaic: frameworks of change from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens in eastern Europe

W Davies, D White, M Lewis, C Stringer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Defining varying spatial and temporal analytical scales is essential before evaluating the
responses of late Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens to Abrupt Environmental …

New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paleolithic site of Schöningen

WH Schoch, G Bigga, U Böhner, P Richter… - Journal of human …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleolithic site of Schöningen is famous for the earliest known, completely
preserved wooden weapons. Here we present recent results of an ongoing analysis of the …

Wooden tools and fire technology in the early Neanderthal site of Poggetti Vecchi (Italy)

B Aranguren, A Revedin, N Amico… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Excavations for the construction of thermal pools at Poggetti Vecchi (Grosseto, Tuscany,
central Italy) exposed a series of wooden tools in an open-air stratified site referable to late …

[HTML][HTML] A double-pointed wooden throwing stick from Schöningen, Germany: Results and new insights from a multianalytical study

A Milks, J Lehmann, D Leder, M Sietz, T Koddenberg… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-
scale record of humanly-made wooden tools. These include wooden spears and shorter …

Past extinctions of Homo species coincided with increased vulnerability to climatic change

P Raia, A Mondanaro, M Melchionna, M Di Febbraro… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
At least six different Homo species populated the World during the latest Pliocene to the
Pleistocene. The extinction of all but one of them is currently shrouded in mystery, and no …

Transparent reversible prosthesis, a new way to complete the conservation–restoration of a Black Ding bowl with application of 3D technologies

S Liu, Y Tu, X Wang, B Qin, Z Xie, Y Zhang, H Zhang… - Heritage Science, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, 3D technology has been widely used in various aspects of the entire
workflow of conservation–restoration. However, in the majority of cases, researchers have …

All about yew: on the trail of Taxus baccata in southwest Europe by means of integrated palaeobotanical and archaeobotanical studies

P Uzquiano, E Allué, F Antolín, F Burjachs… - Vegetation History and …, 2015 - Springer
This paper reviews the palaeobiogeography of Taxus baccata (yew) and the human social
customs and traditions relating to this tree in southwest Europe. Pollen and …

Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions

A Iwase, K Sano, J Nagasaki, N Otake… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Systematic tree-felling using a polished stone axe and/or adze developed with sedentary
lifeways in Holocene environments. However, securely dated Pleistocene edge-ground …

A Roman barge in the Ljubljanica river (Slovenia): wood identification, dendrochronological dating and wood preservation research

K Čufar, M Merela, M Erič - Journal of archaeological science, 2014 - Elsevier
A preventive underwater survey conducted in 2008 in the Ljubljanica river near Sinja Gorica
(between Vrhnika and Ljubljana, Slovenia), revealed the remains of a sunken vessel …