[HTML][HTML] Shanidar et ses fleurs? Reflections on the palynology of the Neanderthal 'Flower Burial'hypothesis

CO Hunt, E Pomeroy, T Reynolds, E Tilby… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pollen clumps associated with the skeleton of the Shanidar 4 Neanderthal were interpreted
by the excavator as evidence for a purposeful burial with flowers. This was one of several …

Ornamental plant domestication by aesthetics-driven human cultural niche construction

A Altman, S Shennan, J Odling-Smee - Trends in plant science, 2022 - cell.com
Unlike plants that were domesticated to secure food, the domestication and breeding of
ornamental plants are driven by aesthetic values. Here, we examine the major elements of …

[LIVRE][B] How religion evolved: And why it endures

R Dunbar - 2022 - books.google.com
One of the world's foremost scholars of evolution tackles one of its essential mysteries: why
we believe. Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years ago. Since …

[LIVRE][B] People of the earth: An introduction to world prehistory

B Fagan, N Durrani - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

Modelling Neanderthals' dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east

E Ghasidian, A Kafash, M Kehl, M Yousefi… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from
the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents …

[LIVRE][B] The archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid empire

R Matthews, HF Nashli - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

[HTML][HTML] Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications

A Fuentes, M Kissel, P Spikins, K Molopyane, J Hawks… - eLife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest
examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child

A Balzeau, A Turq, S Talamo, C Daujeard, G Guérin… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The origin of funerary practices has important implications for the emergence of so-called
modern cognitive capacities and behaviour. We provide new multidisciplinary information on …

Cooking in caves: Palaeolithic carbonised plant food remains from Franchthi and Shanidar

C Kabukcu, C Hunt, E Hill, E Pomeroy, T Reynolds… - Antiquity, 2023 - cambridge.org
Research on Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer diet has focused on the consumption of animals.
Evidence for the use of plant foods is comparatively limited but is rapidly expanding. The …

Reconstructing contact and a potential interbreeding geographical zone between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans

SH Guran, M Yousefi, A Kafash, E Ghasidian - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
While the interbreeding of Homo neanderthalensis (hereafter Neanderthal) and
Anatomically modern human (AMH) has been proven, owing to the shortage of fossils and …