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Geologic time

Identity and mobility through personal ornaments in Upper Paleolithic cantabrian hunter-gatherer societies: Insights from Llonín cave (Asturias, Spain)

Daniel Pérez-García de los Salmones, David Cuenca-Solana, Borja González-Rabanal, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Elsa Duarte-Matías, Marco de la Rasilla-Vives

published 08 Jun 2026

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Tool-stone selection in the African Middle stone age at Sibhudu cave

Patrick Schmidt, Klaus G. Nickel

published 04 Jun 2026

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First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene

Leonardo Sorbelli, Faysal Bibi, Joan Madurell-Malapeira, Federica Grandi, Elena Moreno-Ribas, Oriol Oms, Gerard Campeny, Bruno Gómez de Soler

published 03 Jun 2026

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Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

Alexander D. Clark, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang, Stephen Pruett-Jones, Xiangyu Zhang, Xing Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Zhonghe Zhou

published 27 May 2026

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Composition and paleoecology of the mid-Jurassic bony fish assemblage of the Vaches Noires cliffs (Normandy, France)

Simon Beaufils, Romain Vullo, Damien Gendry, Laurent Picot, Lionel Cavin

published 27 May 2026

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Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya

Jennifer M. Miller, Ceri Shipton, Nikos Kourampas, Josep M. Parés, Hubert Vonhof, Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Arturo Cueva-Temprana, Makayla Harding, Alison Crowther, Dovydas Jurkenas, Doreen Mutoro, Jacopo Niccolò Cerassoni, Ricardo Fernandes, Christine Maroma, Emmanuel Ndiema, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia

published 20 May 2026

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Fishing for millennia: Effects and impacts of prehistoric fishing in the Syltholm Fjord, Denmark

Daniel Groß, Sofie Folsach Hellerøe, Satu Koivisto, Ulrich Schmölcke

published 13 May 2026

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Functional morphology of the Cambrian archaeocyath sponge Yukonensis

Zaid A. Qureshi, Brandt M. Gibson, Simon A. F. Darroch, Marc Laflamme

published 11 May 2026

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Late Cenozoic exhumation in the eastern Junggar Basin: Evidence from zircon (U-Th)/He ages of combustion metamorphic rocks

Bin Chen, Pan Liu, Yan Dong, Changjuan Feng, Zhuang Zhao, Chaoqun Yang, Yixin Dong

published 05 May 2026

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Paleolatitude.org 3.0: A calculator for paleoclimate and paleobiology studies based on a new global paleogeography model

Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Bram Vaes, Lydian M. Boschman, Nalan Lom, Suzanna H. A. van de Lagemaat, Eldert L. Advokaat, Sanne de Baar, Menno R. T. Fraters, Joren Paridaens, Emilia B. Jarochowska

published 29 Apr 2026

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Unveiling bast fiber production in Upper Paleolithic North China: Microfibers and usewear traces on stone tools from Shizitan

Li Liu, Yahui He, David Cohen, Xingcan Chen, Jinming Shi, Yanhua Song

published 13 Apr 2026

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The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa

Julien Benoit, Vincent Fernandez, Jennifer Botha

published 09 Apr 2026

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Carved in stone: Experimental criteria for identifying Paleolithic bas-relief production techniques and sculptors’ expertise

Émilie Brochard, Luc Doyon, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Gilles Tosello, Lila Geis, Francesco d’Errico

published 01 Apr 2026

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