Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution

J Dembitzer, R Barkai, M Ben-Dor, S Meiri - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiple large-bodied species went extinct during the Pleistocene. Changing climates and/or
human hunting are the main hypotheses used to explain these extinctions. We studied the …

[HTML][HTML] The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model

J Zilhão - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

Human dispersals out of Africa via the Levant

M Abbas, Z Lai, JD Jansen, H Tu, M Alqudah, X Xu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into Eurasia multiple times in the Middle and Late
Pleistocene. The route, across northeastern Africa into the Levant, is a viable terrestrial …

Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

Y Zaidner, L Centi, M Prévost, N Mercier, C Falguères… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at
the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior …

Evolution of cranial capacity revisited: A view from the late Middle Pleistocene cranium from Xujiayao, China

XJ Wu, CJ Bae, M Friess, S ** interactions of H. neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens from the fossil and genetic records
C Stringer, L Crété - PaleoAnthropology, 2022 - ub31.uni-tuebingen.de
Evidence suggests that the Neanderthal and Homo sapiens lineages began diverging about
600,000 years ago, evolving largely separately in Eurasia and Africa after that time. Around …

Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia)

D Mihailović, SL Kuhn, K Bogićević… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major changes in the technological, economic, and social behavior of Middle Pleistocene
hominins occurred at the onset of the Middle Paleolithic, 400–200 ka. However, until …