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Hominids

Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Aviad Agam, Ella Assaf, Bar Efrati, Yafit Kedar, Vlad Litov, Maayan Shemer, Ran Barkai

published 29 Dec 2025

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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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A Late Pleistocene archaic human tooth from Gua Dagang (Trader’s Cave), Niah national park, Sarawak (Malaysia)

Darren Curnoe, Mohammed S. Sauffi, Hsiao Mei Goh, Xue-feng Sun, Roshan Peiris

published 10 Dec 2025

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Testing the taxonomy of Dmanisi hominin fossils through dental crown area

Victor Nery, Walter Neves, Leticia Valota, Mark Hubbe

published 03 Dec 2025

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On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared

Anastasia Nikulina, Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, Marco Davoli, Elena A. Pearce, Jens-Christian Svenning, Dave van Wees, Ralph Fyfe, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, Fulco Scherjon

published 22 Oct 2025

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Tracing Neanderthal mobility through the Romanian Carpathians: A GIS-based least-cost connectivity model

George Murătoreanu, Marian Cosac

published 10 Oct 2025

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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago?

Hugues Plisson, Alena V. Kharevich, Vladimir M. Kharevich, Pavel V. Chistiakov, Lydia V. Zotkina, Malvina Baumann, Eric Pubert, Ksenya A. Kolobova, Farhod A. Maksudov, Andrei I. Krivoshapkin

published 11 Aug 2025

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Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia

Emily Coco, Radu Iovita

published 09 Jun 2025

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Climate change in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP and Neanderthal territorial habitability

Anna Degioanni, Sandrine Cabut, Silvana Condemi, Robin S. Smith

published 26 Feb 2025

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Design and development of a sensorized hammerstone for accurate force measurement in stone knapping experiments

Cecilia Barroso-Medina, Sam C. Lin, Matthew W. Tocheri, Manish Sreenivasa

published 17 Sep 2024

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When is a handaxe a planned-axe? exploring morphological variability in the Acheulean

James Clark, Ceri Shipton, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Philip Ronald Nigst, Robert Andrew Foley

published 16 Jul 2024

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Buronius manfredschmidi—A new small hominid from the early late Miocene of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)

M. Böhme, D. R. Begun, A. C. Holmes, T. Lechner, G. Ferreira

published 07 Jun 2024

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An economic model and evidence of the evolution of human intelligence in the Middle Pleistocene: Climate change and assortative mating

Bruce C. Petersen

published 02 Aug 2023

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