In the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene, Neandertals inhabited a wide variety of
ecological zones across western Eurasia during both glacial and interglacial times. To …

Previous studies have suggested that Neandertals experienced greater physiological stress
and/or were less capable of mitigating stress than most prehistoric modern human …

With the exception of few studies, occlusal microwear of pre‐agricultural modern humans
has not been documented. In this study, microwear fabrics of samples from seven …

Objectives The current study seeks to determine if a sample of foragers, farmers, and
pastoralists are distinguishable based on their dental microwear texture signatures …

Given the well‐documented fact that human body proportions covary with climate
(presumably due to the action of selection), one would expect that the Ipiutak and Tigara …

Homo erectus was the first hominin to exhibit extensive range expansion. This extraordinary
departure from Africa, especially into more temperate climates of Eurasia, has been …

Many aspects of diet and behaviour can be gleaned from dental wear, including
environmental conditions, food‐fracture properties, food processing techniques, and cultural …

The extent to which the mandibular corpus exhibits developmental plasticity has important
implications for interpreting variation in adult and juvenile mandibular morphology in the …

Accurate and precise age‐at‐death estimation methods are critical when studying past
lifeways. However, adult age‐at‐death estimation is often difficult because of diverse …

Using the protocol outlined in The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western
Hemisphere (BBH)(Steckel and Rose. 2002a. The backbone of history: health and nutrition …