[HTML][HTML] Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution

R Grün, C Stringer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
This review is a follow up to Grün et al.(2006): Direct Dating of Human Fossils. Since that
time there has been progress on the experimental side of the geochronological analyses …

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

GM Smith, K Ruebens, EI Zavala… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Recent excavations at Ranis (Germany) identified an early dispersal of Homo
sapiens into the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Here we integrate results …

Best practices for selecting samples, analyzing data, and publishing results in isotope archaeology

P Vaiglova, NA Lazar, EA Stroud, E Loftus… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Isotopic analysis has become one of the most popular arenas of archaeological science, in
part due to its versatility to uncover intriguing insights from a range of organic and inorganic …

Growing up in the Ice Age: Fossil and archaeological evidence of the lived lives of Plio-Pleistocene children

A Nowell - 2021 - torrossa.com
Do we need an archaeology of mothering? For prehistoric periods, I would argue, we need
to challenge notions of parenting and child care that may subconsciously shape …

The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki

Y Zhang, KE Westaway, S Haberle, JK Lubeek… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The largest ever primate and one of the largest of the southeast Asian megafauna,
Gigantopithecus blacki, persisted in China from about 2.0 million years until the late middle …

Early life of Neanderthals

A Nava, F Lugli, M Romandini, F Badino… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The early onset of weaning in modern humans has been linked to the high nutritional
demand of brain development that is intimately connected with infant physiology and growth …

Teeth as potential new tools to measure early-life adversity and subsequent mental health risk: an interdisciplinary review and conceptual model

KA Davis, RV Mountain, OR Pickett, PK Den Besten… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Early-life adversity affects nearly half of all youths in the United States and is a known risk
factor for psychiatric disorders across the life course. One strategy to prevent mental illness …

The exposome in human evolution: from dust to diesel

BC Trumble, CE Finch - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Global exposures to air pollution and cigarette smoke are novel in human evolutionary
history and are associated with at least 12 million premature deaths per year. We investigate …

Assessing laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry as a tool to study archaeological and modern human mobility through strontium …

A Boethius, T Ahlström, M Kielman-Schmitt… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
To evaluate the possibility of obtaining detailed individual mobility data from archaeological
teeth, the strontium isotope ratios on 28 human teeth from three separate Early-Mid …