The environmental crises currently grip** the Earth have been codified in a new proposed
geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working …

This paper offers a broad and critical overview of current discussions on the potential uses
and the characterization of pigments in prehistory, with a special focus on prehistoric rock …

Indonesia harbors some of the oldest known surviving cave art. Previously, the earliest
dated rock art from this region was a figurative painting of a Sulawesi warty pig (Sus …

This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Previous dating research indicated that the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is host to some of
the oldest known rock art,–. That work was based on solution uranium-series (U-series) …

Humans seem to have an adaptive predisposition for inventing, telling and consuming
stories. Prehistoric cave art provides the most direct insight that we have into the earliest …

Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …

In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and
newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation …

The prevailing view regarding the evolution of medicine is that the emergence of settled
agricultural societies around 10,000 years ago (the Neolithic Revolution) gave rise to a host …

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14–editor. Title: Handbook of visual communication: theory, methods, and media/edited by …