Conservation management options for southern African elephants range from local to
regional scales. Here we review these options and argue in favour of actions that will deal …

Meat consumption by early hominins is a hotly debated issue. A key question concerns their
access to large mammal carcasses, including megafauna. Currently, the evidence of …

In the study of fragmented human remains the plausibility of a cannibalism hypothesis rests
primarily on the correct identification of the cause of breakage. Here the use of fracture …

Cutmarks made by stone tools, conchoidal flake scars from hammerstone percussion,
carnivore tooth marks, striations from sedimentary abrasion, and other surface modifications …

Mortality patterns in archaeofaunas can be informative of prehistoric human foraging habits,
land use, and, ultimately, evolutionary changes in hominid sociality and ecological niche …

Zooarchaeologists have become accustomed to high levels of confidence in their inferences
about the origins, functions, and responses to stress of animal remains. This confidence …

The first arrivals of hominin populations into Eurasia during the Early Pleistocene are
currently considered to have occurred as short and poorly dated biological dispersions …

From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the
first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is …

Modern African elephants affect habitats and ecosystems in significant ways. They push
over trees to feed on upper branches and often peel large sections of bark to eat. These …

The existence of shaped bone and ivory points, to be used as awls or with wooden hafts,
has been suggested for the Lower Paleolithic sites of Torralba and Ambrona and for several …