Late Cenozoic faunal and ecological change in Africa

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Africa's fossil record of late Cenozoic mammals documents considerable ecological and
evolutionary changes through time. Here, we synthesize those changes in the context of the …

[HTML][HTML] Ecospace occupancy and disparity in Pleistocene large carnivorans of Europe and implications for hominin dispersal and ecological role

A Iannucci - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The evolution of large mammal faunas during the Pleistocene of Europe has been widely
investigated using taxonomical and/or ecological-functional categories, with special …

Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence

S Lacy, C Ocobock - American Anthropologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Paleo‐fantasy of a deep history to a sexual division of labor, often described as “Man
the Hunter and Woman the Gatherer,” continues to dominate the literature. We see it used as …

[HTML][HTML] The cheese paradox: How do vegetarians justify consuming non-meat animal products?

D Docherty, C Jasper - Appetite, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers interested in animal ethics have proposed the 'meat paradox'-psychological
discomfort arising from people's affinity for animals and conflicting desire to consume their …

Using machine learning on new feature sets extracted from three-dimensional models of broken animal bones to classify fragments according to break agent

K Yezzi-Woodley, A Terwilliger, J Li, E Chen… - Journal of Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Distinguishing agents of bone modification at paleoanthropological sites is an important
means of understanding early hominin evolution. Fracture pattern analysis is used to help …

Plio-Pleistocene African megaherbivore losses associated with community biomass restructuring

F Bibi, JL Cantalapiedra - Science, 2023 - science.org
Fossil abundance data can reveal ecological dynamics underpinning taxonomic declines.
Using fossil dental metrics, we reconstructed body mass and mass–abundance distributions …

Why do humans hunt cooperatively? ethnohistoric data reveal the contexts, advantages, and evolutionary importance of communal hunting

E Morin, D Bird, B Winterhalder… - Current …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We analyze a new ethnographic and ethnohistoric database of quantitative cases (n= 139)
and qualitative information on a neglected form of forager subsistence—communal drive …

Putrid meat in the tropics: it wasn't just for Inuit

JD Speth, M Eugène - PaleoAnthropology, 2022 - theologie-geschichte.de
It is widely known that traditional northern hunter–gatherers such as the Inuit included putrid
meat, fish, and fat in their diet, although the ubiquity and dietary importance of decomposing …

Insights on the Early Pleistocene hominin population of the Guadix-Baza Depression (SE Spain) and a review on the ecology of the first peopling of Europe

P Palmqvist, G Rodríguez-Gómez… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The chronology and environmental context of the first hominin dispersal in Europe have
been subject to debate and controversy. The oldest settlements in Eurasia (eg, Dmanisi,∼ …

Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago

SC Curran, V Drăgușin, B Pobiner, M Pante… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The timing of the initial dispersal of hominins into Eurasia is unclear. Current evidence
indicates hominins were present at Dmanisi, Georgia by 1.8 million years ago (Ma), but …