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Ancient use and long-distance transport of the Four Corners Potato (Solanum jamesii) across the Colorado Plateau: Implications for early stages of domestication

Lisbeth A. Louderback, Cynthia Wilson, Stefania L. Wilks, Kaley Joyce, Sara Rickett, John Bamberg, Alfonso del Rio, Bruce M. Pavlik

published 21 Jan 2026

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A near-continuous archaeological record of Pleistocene human occupation at Leang Bulu Bettue, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Basran Burhan, Budianto Hakim, Iwan Sumantri, Suryatman, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Ratno Sardi, Hasliana, Muhammad Ramli, Linda Siagian, Andi Jusdi, Abdullah, Fardi Ali Syahdar, Hamrullah, Imran Ilyas, Putra Hudlinas Muhammad, Sofyan Setia Budi, Nur Ihsan Djindar, Shinatria Adhityatama, Rustan Lebe, Marlon N. R. Ririmasse, Irfan Mahmud, Akin Duli, Yinika L. Perston, Mark W. Moore, Mariana Sontag-González, Bo Li, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Maxime Aubert, Rainer Grün, David P. McGahan, Michelle C. Langley, Emma C. James, Tiina Manne, Ian Moffat, Brian Jones, Adam Brumm

published 23 Dec 2025

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Bearing characteristics and settlement calculation method of pile groups in beaded karst areas

Jie Li, Jiaxing Tao, Juncheng He, Jianhui He, Mingquan Huang, Yan Zhao, Mingjie Zhou

published 09 Dec 2025

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Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia

Huw S. Groucutt, Mathew Stewart, Faisal Al-Jibreen, Mesfer Al-Qahtani, Mahmoud Al-Shanti, Eric Andrieux, James Blinkhorn, Nicole Boivin, Paul S. Breeze, Nick Drake, Abdullah Memesh, Yahya Mufarreh, Gilbert Price, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Nils Vanwezer, Hubert Vonhof, Iyad Zalmout, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Michael D. Petraglia

published 20 Nov 2025

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Four new species of dragon pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones: Pseudotyrannochthoniidae: Spelaeochthonius) from caves in South Korea revealed by integrative taxonomy

Kyung–Hoon Jeong, Danilo Harms, Jung-sun Yoo, Sora Kim

published 09 Jul 2025

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Megafauna mobility: Assessing the foraging range of an extinct macropodid from central eastern Queensland, Australia

Christopher Laurikainen Gaete, Anthony Dosseto, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, Richard Lewis, Scott Hocknull

published 23 Apr 2025

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The complexity of architectural and anthropological dynamics in womb-tomb structures: An interdisciplinary investigation

Nurit Stadler, Shlomit Flint

published 03 Mar 2025

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A new troglobitic species of Tychobythinus from Sicily with notes on some Italian species of the genus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Giorgio Sabella, Marco Mariano Interlandi, Giuseppe Nicolosi

published 19 Feb 2025

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Mountain caves of the central region of Veracruz: A vertebrate biodiversity reservoir in a Neotropical hotspot

Alberto Hernández-Lozano, Arturo González-Zamora, Martha L. Baena, Yareni Perroni-Ventura, Diana Gisell Juanz-Aguirre, Israel Huesca-Domíguez

published 09 Aug 2024

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A practical guide for the husbandry of cave and surface invertebrates as the first step in establishing new model organisms

Marko Lukić, Lada Jovović, Jana Bedek, Magdalena Grgić, Nikolina Kuharić, Tin Rožman, Iva Čupić, Bob Weck, Daniel Fong, Helena Bilandžija

published 04 Apr 2024

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Formation processes, fire use, and patterns of human occupation across the Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 5a-5b) of Gruta da Oliveira (Almonda karst system, Torres Novas, Portugal)

Diego E. Angelucci, Mariana Nabais, João Zilhão

published 11 Oct 2023

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Rock art and frontier conflict in Southeast Asia: Insights from direct radiocarbon ages for the large human figures of Gua Sireh, Sarawak

Jillian Huntley, Paul S. C. Taçon, Andrea Jalandoni, Fiona Petchey, Emilie Dotte-Sarout, Mohammad Sherman Sauffi William

published 23 Aug 2023

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Differences of oribatid mite community and trophic structure between karst caves and surface different moss habitats

Tong Gong, Xiumei Yin, Wenjun Liu, Hu Chen, Zheng Shi

published 17 Aug 2023

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