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Physical anthropology

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

Jonathan Santana, Jacob Morales, [ ... ], Amelia Rodríguez-Rodríguez

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

Patrick Schmidt, Klaus G. Nickel

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

M. Dolores Marin-Monfort, Candice L. Shaw, [ ... ], Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo

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

Hasan Yalim Akin, Timur Tuncali, [ ... ], Meral Beksac

Earliest evidence for invasive mitigation of dental caries by Neanderthals

Alisa V. Zubova, Lydia V. Zotkina, [ ... ], Ksenia A. Kolobova

The application of large language models in meteorology graduate research: current status, impact, and prospects

Siguang Zhu, Honghui Li

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

Li Liu, Yahui He, [ ... ], Yanhua Song

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

Émilie Brochard, Luc Doyon, [ ... ], Francesco d’Errico

Unpacking lithic assemblage variability in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: A multivariate approach to the structure of the Iberian Aurignacian

Timothy Canessa, Paloma de la Peña

Aterian shell beads from the coastal site of El Mnasra Cave (Rabat-Témara, Morocco): Specificities of the north African MSA personal ornaments

Emilie Campmas, Matthieu Lebon, [ ... ], Roland Nespoulet

Antibacterial properties of experimentally produced birch tar and its medicinal affordances in the Pleistocene

Tjaark Siemssen, Aderonke Oludare, [ ... ], Matthias Bierenstiel

Reassessing Rujm el-Hiri: Aerial imagery and stone circles in the proto-historic Southern Levant

Michal Birkenfeld, Olga Khabarova, Lev V. Eppelbaum, Uri Berger

Ethnographic meta-analysis shows that thermoregulation activities predict needle and awl use in North America

McKenna Lynn Litynski, Sean Field, Randall Haas

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