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Paleontology

Specialized marine exploitation on African islands: A multiproxy archaeological analysis of the Playa Chica site, Gran Canaria (11th–13th CE)

Jonathan Santana, Jacob Morales, Simon-Pierre Gilson, Aitor Brito-Mayor, María del Carmen González-Ruiz, Paloma Vidal-Matutano, Miguel del Pino-Curbelo, Idaira Brito-Abrante, Pedro Henríquez-Valido, Javier Cruz Viera, Alberto Lacave-Hernández, Carmen Rodríguez Santana, Sandra Cancel, Marta Moreno-García, Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez

published 10 Jun 2026

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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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New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)

M. Dolores Marin-Monfort, Candice L. Shaw, Filipe Natalio, Liron Grossman, Peter Andrews, Joaquín Campos, Sara García-Morato, José M. Pereira, Alicia Pons, Michael Chazan, Liora Kolska Horwitz, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo

published 01 Jun 2026

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What did the dove sing to Pope Gregory? Ancestral melody reconstruction in Gregorian chant using Bayesian phylogenetics

Gustavo A. Ballen, Klára Hedvika Mühlová, Jan Hajič jr.

published 29 May 2026

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Innate immunogenetic synergy between KIR and Neanderthal-derived OAS variants predicts COVID-19 outcomes

Hasan Yalim Akin, Timur Tuncali, Emine Begum Gencer, Guldane Cengiz Seval, Elif Mukime Saricaoglu, Ezgi Gulten, Irem Akdemir Kalkan, Gule Cinar, Osman Memikoglu, Ridvan Goksel Anliacik, Ezgi Anliacik, Ergun Karaagaoglu, Klara Dalva, Meral Beksac

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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Range-weighted branch length difference (RWiBaLD), a new method for distinguishing meso-endemism from neo-endemism and paleo-endemism

Brent D. Mishler, Nunzio Knerr, Joseph T. Miller, Andrew H. Thornhill, Shawn W. Laffan

published 22 May 2026

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High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the “Dueling Dinosaurs” locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

Eric M. Roberts, Marc S. Hendrix, Jahandar Ramezani, William C. Clyde, Pierre Zippi, Stuart Hodgson, Valerie Yuleridge, Lindsay E. Zanno

published 20 May 2026

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Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals

Alisa V. Zubova, Lydia V. Zotkina, John W. Olsen, Alexander M. Kulkov, Vyacheslav G. Moiseyev, Anna A. Malyutina, Roman V. Davydov, Sergey V. Markin, Eugene A. Maksimovskiy, Pavel V. Chistyakov, Andrey I. Krivoshapkin, Ksenia A. Kolobova

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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Ancient East Asian dog lineage is revealed by genome of ancient Korean dogs

Hyeongcheol Kim, Suyeon Kim, A-reum Yu, Eunji Song, Sol Kim, Taiji Miyazaki, Yohey Terai

published 06 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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