An understanding of the structural complexity of mineralised tissues is fundamental for
exploration into the field of diagenesis. Here we review aspects of current and past research …

Before the early 1980s, the prevailing orthodoxy in paleoanthropology considered Early
Stone Age archeological sites in East Africa to represent a primitive form of hominid …

Abstract The Great Hungarian Plain was a crossroads of cultural transformations that have
shaped European prehistory. Here we analyse a 5,000-year transect of human genomes …

The emergence of lithic technology by∼ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) is often interpreted as a
correlate of increasingly recurrent hominin acquisition and consumption of animal remains …

Zooarchaeological research at Qesem Cave, Israel demonstrates that large-game hunting
was a regular practice by the late Lower Paleolithic period. The 400-to 200,000-year-old …

Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the
archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered …

The site of Les Pradelles has an important mousterian stratigraphic sequence. In the lower
levels, the very low density of artefacts as well as the carnivores scavenging of carcasses …

Competition for resources is a key question in the study of our early human evolution. From
the first hominin groups, carnivores have played a fundamental role in the ecosystem. From …

The late Lower Paleolithic archaeofaunas of Qesem Cave in the southern Levant span 400–
200 ka and associate with Acheulo-Yabrudian (mainly Amudian) industries. The large …

We investigate mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) carcass processing to reconstruct
resource intensification strategies during the Epipalaeolithic period of northern Israel. We …