[HTML][HTML] Not seen before. Unveiling depositional context and Mammuthus meridionalis exploitation at Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, southern Iberia) through taphonomy and …

J Yravedra, LA Courtenay… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Meat consumption by early hominins is a hotly debated issue. A key question concerns their
access to large mammal carcasses, including megafauna. Currently, the evidence of …

Deciphering carnivoran competition for animal resources at the 1.46 Ma early Pleistocene site of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)

LA Courtenay, J Yravedra, D Herranz-Rodrigo… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Barranco León (Orce, Guadix Baza, Spain) is one of the sites with the oldest
evidence of human activity in south-western Europe. This site has yielded human remains in …

Hyperspectral imaging and robust statistics in non-melanoma skin cancer analysis

LA Courtenay, D González-Aguilera… - Biomedical optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Non-Melanoma skin cancer is one of the most frequent types of cancer. Early detection is
encouraged so as to ensure the best treatment, Hyperspectral imaging is a promising …

Developments in data science solutions for carnivore tooth pit classification

LA Courtenay, D Herranz-Rodrigo… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

A 39,600-year-old leather punch board from Canyars, Gavà, Spain

L Doyon, T Faure, M Sanz, J Daura, L Cassard… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Puncture alignments are found on Palaeolithic carvings, pendants, and other fully shaped
osseous artifacts. These marks were interpreted as abstract decorations, system of …

New methods for old questions: the use of elliptic fourier analysis for the formal study of palaeolithic art

M García-Bustos, P García Bustos, O Rivero - Journal of Archaeological …, 2024 - Springer
One of the main objectives of Palaeolithic art researchers is to study and systematise the
form of artistic representations. Some methodologies include the analysis of qualitative …

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 …

Use and misuse of machine learning in anthropology

J Calder, R Coil, JA Melton, PJ Olver… - IEEE BITS the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML), being now widely accessible to the research community at large,
has fostered a proliferation of new and striking applications of these emergent mathematical …

Unravelling hominin activities in the zooarchaeological assemblage of Barranco León (Orce, Granada, Spain)

J Yravedra, JA Solano, D Herranz-Rodrigo… - Journal of Paleolithic …, 2022 - Springer
Little is known about the subsistence practices of the first European settlers, mainly due to
the shortage of archaeological sites in Europe older than a million years. This article …

Data-driven classification and explainable-AI in the field of lung imaging

STH Shah, SAH Shah, II Khan, A Imran… - Frontiers in Big …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Detecting lung diseases in medical images can be quite challenging for radiologists. In
some cases, even experienced experts may struggle with accurately diagnosing chest …