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Bugs, beetles and the human diet: The exploitation of insects by human and non-human primates

The investigation of human diet throughout our evolutionary past has focussed almost exclusively on the changing importance of meat and other carcass products. In part, this is due to the preservation and recovery of large quantities of animal bones at sites of various age at a global scale. Recently, such a “meatcentric” view of human…

February 21, 2014 in Uncategorized.

Modern humans, and no more Neanderthals, present in Italy and Greece 45,000 years ago?

The Uluzzian is a stone tool industry found stratigraphically between the late Mousterian and the early Upper Palaeolithic at sites in Italy and Greece. It’s a flake-based industry with lunates, crescent-shaped backed pieces, as type fossil. Alongside these lithic types bone points, perforated shell beads and mineral pigments are found. Only at one site, Cavallo…

February 10, 2014 in Uncategorized.

New dates place Homo erectus fossil from Turkey at 1.1 to 1.3 million years

At the site of Kocabaş (southwest Turkey) a fragmentary cranium was recovered in 2002 from a travertine quarry alongside faunal remains. The skull has been assigned to Homo erectus and its morphology seems to be intermediate between the skulls from Dmanisi (Georgie, 1.8mya) and Zhoukoudian (China, 0.8mya). So far age determinations of the travertines at…

January 22, 2014 in Uncategorized.

Both climate and culture shaped early modern human dispersals across Africa

When, where and how anatomically modern humans originated and migrated remains a controversial topic. While fossil evidence seems to favour eastern Africa (e.g. Omo and Herto), archaeological evidence seems to indicate the origin of certain types of behaviour in southern Africa (e.g. Blombos). Genetic and palaeoclimatic evidence add additional levels of complexity. A recent study…

November 19, 2013 in Uncategorized.

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