New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

JJ Hublin, A Ben-Ncer, SE Bailey, SE Freidline… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Fossil evidence points to an African origin of Homo sapiens from a group called either H.
heidelbergensis or H. rhodesiensis. However, the exact place and time of emergence of H …

Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos

JL Arsuaga, I Martínez, LJ Arnold, A Aranburu… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Seventeen Middle Pleistocene crania from the Sima de los Huesos site (Atapuerca, Spain)
are analyzed, including seven new specimens. This sample makes it possible to thoroughly …

The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

T Higham, T Compton, C Stringer, R Jacobi, B Shapiro… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The earliest anatomically modern humans in Europe are thought to have appeared around
43,000–42,000 calendar years before present (43–42 kyr cal bp), by association with …

Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Gavà, Barcelona): the landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the “Ebro frontier” and implications for modern human dispersal …

J Daura, M Sanz, N García, E Allué, M Vaquero… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars is an Upper Pleistocene fluvial deposit containing the
remains of large mammals, principally accumulated in the framework of hyena denning in …

Pleistocene leopards in the Iberian Peninsula: New evidence from palaeontological and archaeological contexts in the Mediterranean region

A Sanchis, C Tormo, V Sauqué, V Sanchis… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study analyses the fossil record of leopards in the Iberian Peninsula. According to the
systematic and morphometric features of new remains, identified mainly in Late Pleistocene …

Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China

X Wu, S Pei, Y Cai, H Tong, Z Zhang, Y Yan… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have yielded abundant hominin
fossils dated to 300 ka. There is a nearly complete mandible that fits well with a partial …

The Neandertal nature of the Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos mandibles

R Quam, I Martínez, Y Rak, B Hylander… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The recovery of additional mandibular fossils from the Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos (SH)
site provides new insights into the evolutionary significance of this sample. In particular …

How did modern morphology evolve in the human mandible? The relationship between static adult allometry and mandibular variability in Homo sapiens

I Bergmann, JJ Hublin, P Gunz, SE Freidline - Journal of Human Evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
Key to understanding human origins are early Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud, as
well as from the early Late Pleistocene sites Tabun, Border Cave, Klasies River Mouth …

Understanding the ancient habitats of the last-interglacial (late MIS 5) Neanderthals of central Iberia: Paleoenvironmental and taphonomic evidence from the Cueva …

JL Arsuaga, E Baquedano, A Pérez-González… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Cueva del Camino site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid) represents the most complete MIS 5
record from the Iberian Peninsula (away from the Mediterranean margin), including a large …

Late Neandertals in Southeastern Iberia: sima de las palomas del cabezo gordo, Murcia, Spain

MJ Walker, J Gibert, MV López… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Middle Paleolithic fossil human remains from the Sima de las Palomas in southeastern
Iberia (dated to≤ 43,000–40,000 calendar years before present) present a suite of derived …