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 …

The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly
constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution …

Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the
practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological record. In this volume, Julie …

Abstract Though late Middle Pleistocene in age, Homo naledi is characterized by a mosaic
of Australopithecus-like (eg, curved fingers, small brains) and Homo-like (eg, elongated …

This chapter provides a discussion of the way that dental disease is used in biological
anthropology and paleopathology. Various conditions are included dental caries, calculus …

Objectives Enamel prism decussation, which manifests as Hunter-Schreger Bands (HSB), is
considered a mechanism to mitigate crack propagation. During the chewing cycle, the …

Objectives In humans it has been shown that abrasive particles in the diet result in increased
tooth wear and less intense chewing behavior, both of which decrease chewing efficiency …

More than 150 hominin teeth, dated to∼ 330–241 thousand years ago, were recovered
during the 2013–2015 excavations of the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system …

Grit is implicated in several biological phenomena—it wears teeth, it fractures teeth, it drives
tooth evolution, it elicits complex manual manipulations—any one of which could be …

Once considered rare in fossil hominins, caries has recently been reported in several
hominin species, requiring a new assessment of this condition during human evolution …