Species determination based on genetic evidence is an indispensable tool in archaeology,
forensics, ecology, and food authentication. Most available analytical approaches involve …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Biased skeletal part representation is a key element for making inferences about transport
decisions, carcass procurement, and use patterns in anthropogenic accumulations. In the …

Abstract Klissoura Cave 1 in southern Greece preserves a long archaeological sequence
that spans roughly 90,000 years and includes Middle Paleolithic, Uluzzian, Upper …

Conventional zooarchaeological wisdom holds that reduction of bone into small fragments,
modally 2–5 cm in maximum dimension, facilitates the extraction of bone grease. However …

This article presents a pilot experiment conducted to better understand how Middle
Pleistocene hominins might have processed and exploited elephants using simple stone …

Molecular and isotopic analysis of sediments from archaeological combustion features is a
relatively new area of study. Applications can inform us about ancient pyro-technologies and …

The extraction of grease from deliberately comminuted cancellous bone is a low-return
activity that has important evolutionary ramifications because it potentially constitutes an …

Bone grease rendering is a low-return activity well described in the ethnohistorical and
ethnographic literature. However, identifying this activity in archaeological contexts is …

Abstract The Economic Defendability Model posits that foragers exploiting dense and
predictable resources should establish defended territories, while foragers exploiting …