abstract：:Australopithecus anamensis, among the earliest fully bipedal hominin species, lived in eastern Africa around 4 Ma. Much of what is currently known about the paleoecology of A. anamensis comes from the type locality, Kanapoi, Kenya. Here, we extend knowledge of the range of environments occupied by A. anamensis by pres...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Dumouchel L,Bobe R,Wynn JG,Barr WA

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aurignacian (ca. 43-35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. Another aspect of these behaviors is the presence of numerous pieces of iron oxide (ocher); ho...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Velliky EC,Schmidt P,Bellot-Gurlet L,Wolf S,Conard NJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first cervical vertebra (atlas, C1) is an important element of the vertebral column because it connects the cranial base with the cervical column, thus helping to maintain head posture and contributing to neck mobility. However, few atlases are preserved in the fossil record because of the fragility of this verteb...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Palancar CA,Torres-Tamayo N,García-Martínez D,García-Tabernero A,Rosas A,Bastir M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dentate mandible and proximal femur of Mesopithecus pentelicusWagner, 1839 are described from the Shuitangba lignite mine in Zhaotong Prefecture, northeastern Yunnan Province, China. The remains were retrieved from sediments just below those that yielded a juvenile Lufengpithecus cranium and are dated at about ∼6.4 ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Jablonski NG,Ji X,Kelley J,Flynn LJ,Deng C,Su DF

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hominin habitats are frequently described as 'mosaic' based on interpretations of fossil assemblages comprising taxa with divergent functional adaptations (e.g., both grazers and browsers). This interpretation rests on an assumption that mammal functional diversity is positively associated with habitat heterogeneity. ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Barr WA,Biernat M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northern France and the Near East play and have played a central role in the debate around the Lower Paleolithic (LP) to Middle Paleolithic (MP) boundary. In the early 1990s, the renewed Saalian record for Northern France began to outline a mosaic model of the LP-to-MP transition-mainly based on Tuffreau's works. It i...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Hérisson D,Soriano S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Carabelli trait is a dental feature that forms along the lingual margin of the protocone of deciduous and permanent maxillary molars. It is variably expressed, ranging from a small pit or furrow to a large cusp, and its development seems to be associated with crown size and molar cusp spatial configuration. The de...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Fiorenza L,Menter CG,Fung S,Lee J,Kaidonis J,Moggi-Cecchi J,Townsend G,Kullmer O

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we present a metric and morphological study of the molar remains from the Montmaurin-La Niche mandible by means of microcomputed tomography. According to the last analysis, based on the combination of geomorphological and paleontological data, the level bearing this human mandible probably corresponds to the mar...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Martínez de Pinillos M,Martín-Francés L,de Castro JMB,García-Campos C,Modesto-Mata M,Martinón-Torres M,Vialet A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual dimorphism is an important component of the total variation seen in populations and plays a key role in taxonomic debates. In this study, microtomographic (microcomputed tomography) techniques were applied to a sample of hominin teeth from the Sima de los Huesos site (Spain). Dental tissue proportions of the pe...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： García-Campos C,Modesto-Mata M,Martinón-Torres M,Martínez de Pinillos M,Martín-Francés L,Arsuaga JL,Bermúdez de Castro JM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Neandertals are the best-known fossil hominins, the tempo and evolutionary processes in their lineage are strongly debated. This is in part due to the scarcity of the fossil record, in particular before the marine isotopic stage (MIS) 5. In 2010, a partial hominin mandible was discovered at the Middle Paleoli...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Verna C,Détroit F,Kupczik K,Arnaud J,Balzeau A,Grimaud-Hervé D,Bertrand S,Riou B,Moncel MH

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study addresses the roles of biotic agents in site formation in the B1 strata of Block 2 at Dmanisi, Georgia, using theoretical and analogous frameworks for the interpretation of spatial behaviors of carnivores and hominins. For this study, stone material, faunal remains, and coprolites are analyzed to determine ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Coil R,Tappen M,Ferring R,Bukhsianidze M,Nioradze M,Lordkipanidze D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An arboreal lifestyle is thought to be central to primate origins, and most extant primate species still live in the trees. Nonetheless, terrestrial locomotion is a widespread adaptation that has arisen repeatedly within the primate lineage. The absence of terrestriality among the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) is th...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Monteza-Moreno CM,Crofoot MC,Grote MN,Jansen PA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Space use in Middle Paleolithic (MP) camps has been suggested as a source of information on the intensity and repetition of occupations and, by extension, of demographics. In the Levant, clear evidence for differential intrasite use and maintenance was important in viewing the late MP Neanderthal sites as base camps i...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Yeshurun R,Malkinson D,Crater Gershtein KM,Zaidner Y,Weinstein-Evron M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of heat treatment for stone artefact production is a subject of major interest for our understanding of early modern humans. In this study, we examine the evidence from one region in Australia to provide a new record of the antiquity of heat treatment, explore chronological shifts in the frequency of hea...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Schmidt P,Hiscock P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole collection of Suidae from Kanapoi is revised in the context of the systematics and evolution of Nyanzachoerus in the Pliocene of Eastern Africa. It contains only two species, Nyanzachoerus kanamensis and Notochoerus jaegeri. The size and morphology of their premolars overlap, but not those of their m3s. No t...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Geraads D,Bobe R

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present the descriptive and comparative study of two immature scapulae recovered from the TD6.2 level of the Gran Dolina cave site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) and assigned to Homo antecessor. This is the first time that data on the morphology and dimensions of the scapulae of a European late Early Pleistocene...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Bermúdez de Castro JM,Martínez de Pinillos M,López-Polín L,Martín-Francés L,García-Campos C,Modesto-Mata M,Rosell J,Martinón-Torres M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-preserved sequence of Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) occupations has been revealed in the past decade in Manot Cave, the studies of which shed light on the cultural dynamics and subsistence patterns and paleoenvironment. Most intriguing is the series of overlying Levantine Aurignacian occupation layers, exposed ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Marder O,Shemer M,Abulafia T,Bar-Yosef Mayer D,Berna F,Caux S,Edeltin L,Goder-Goldberger M,Hershkovitz I,Lavi R,Shavit R,Tejero JM,Yeshurun R,Barzilai O

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The cercopithecid fossil record of the Balkan Peninsula extends from the Late Miocene to the Early Pleistocene, but to date no fossils of non-human primates have been identified in Serbia. Here we report the identification of two primate teeth from Ridjake, a rich paleontological site in western Serbia. NHMBEO 042501 ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Radović P,Lindal J,Marković Z,Alaburić S,Roksandic M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fossil record of middle and late Miocene Eurasian hominoids has expanded considerably over the past few decades, particularly with the recovery of numerous isolated teeth and jaws. Scholars have turned to assessments of internal tooth structure and growth to make sense of the evolutionary radiations of these prima...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Smith TM,Tafforeau P,Pouech J,Begun DR

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present the first full anatomical description of the 3.67 million-year-old Australopithecus skull StW 573 that was recovered with its skeleton from the Sterkfontein Member 2 breccia in the Silberberg Grotto. Analysis demonstrates that it is most similar in multiple key morphological characters to a group of fo...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Clarke RJ,Kuman K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In apes, the mandibular third premolar (P3) is adapted for a role in honing the large upper canine. The role of honing was lost early in hominin evolution, releasing the tooth from this functional constraint and allowing it to respond to subsequent changes in masticatory demands. This led to substantial morphological ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Davies TW,Delezene LK,Gunz P,Hublin JJ,Skinner MM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castell de Barberà, located in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula), is one of the few European sites where pliopithecoids (Barberapithecus) and hominoids (cf. Dryopithecus) co-occur. The dating of this Miocene site has proven controversial. A latest Aragonian (MN7+8, ca. 11.88-11.18 Ma) age was long accept...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Alba DM,Garcés M,Casanovas-Vilar I,Robles JM,Pina M,Moyà-Solà S,Almécija S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The KNM-ER 64060 dentition derives from a horizon that most likely dates to between 2.02 and 2.03 Ma. A proximate series of postcranial bones (designated KNM-ER 64061) derives from the same siltstone unit and may be associated with the dentition, but their separation on the surface of the site leaves some room for dou...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Grine FE,Leakey MG,Gathago PN,Brown FH,Mongle CS,Yang D,Jungers WL,Leakey LN

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sahara Desert episodically became a space available for hominins in the Pleistocene. Mostly, desert conditions prevailed during the interpluvial periods, which were only periodically interrupted by enhanced precipitation during pluvial or interglacial periods. Responding to Quaternary climatic changes, hominin dis...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Masojć M,Nassr A,Kim JY,Krupa-Kurzynowska J,Sohn YK,Szmit M,Kim JC,Kim JS,Choi HW,Wieczorek M,Timmermann A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the frequencies of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) and, specifically, pitting enamel hypoplasia (PEH) defects in the teeth of Paranthropus robustus, for comparison with four other South African hominin species and three extant nonhuman primate species. Unlike LEH, the lesser known PEH is characterized by mult...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Towle I,Irish JD

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regourdou is a well-known Middle Paleolithic site which has yielded the fossil remains of a minimum of two Neandertal individuals. The first individual (Regourdou 1) is represented by a partial skeleton while the second one is represented by a calcaneus. The foot remains of Regourdou 1 have been used in a number of co...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Pablos A,Gómez-Olivencia A,Maureille B,Holliday TW,Madelaine S,Trinkaus E,Couture-Veschambre C

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term male-female bonds and bi-parental investment in offspring are hallmarks of human society. A key question is how these traits evolved from the polygynandrously mating multimale multifemale society that likely characterized the Pan-Homo ancestor. In all three species of savanna baboons, lactating females form ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Städele V,Roberts ER,Barrett BJ,Strum SC,Vigilant L,Silk JB

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most crucial debates in human paleoneurology concerns the timing and mode of the emergence of the derived cerebral features in the hominin fossil record. Given its exceptional degree of preservation and geological age (i.e., 3.67 Ma), StW 573 ('Little Foot') has the potential to shed new light on hominin br...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Beaudet A,Clarke RJ,de Jager EJ,Bruxelles L,Carlson KJ,Crompton R,de Beer F,Dhaene J,Heaton JL,Jakata K,Jashashvili T,Kuman K,McClymont J,Pickering TR,Stratford D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ritualized greetings, defined as exchanges of non-aggressive signals, are common among males living in multi-male groups and are thought to balance the trade-offs of male co-residence. While ritualized greetings are widespread in the animal kingdom, the behavioral repertoire described in the genus Papio is exceptional...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Dal Pesco F,Fischer J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species of Homo, Homo naledi, was described in 2015 based on the hominin skeletal remains from the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, South Africa. Subsequent craniodental comparative analyses, both phenetic and cladistic, served to support its taxonomic distinctiveness. Here we provide a new quant...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Irish JD,Bailey SE,Guatelli-Steinberg D,Delezene LK,Berger LR

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes three incudes recovered from the Dinaledi Chamber in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa. All three bones were recovered during sieving of excavated sediments and likely represent three Homo naledi individuals. Morphologically and metrically, the Dinaledi ossicles resemble those of chimpan...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Elliott MC,Quam R,Nalla S,de Ruiter DJ,Hawks J,Berger LR

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When measured as a ratio of mean midshaft diameter to bone length, the OH 8 fossil hominin foot exhibits a metatarsal (Mt) robusticity pattern of 1 > 5 > 3 > 4 > 2, which differs from the widely perceived "common" modern human pattern (1 > 5 > 4 > 3 > 2); African apes generally exhibit a third pattern (1 > 2 > 3 > 4 >...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Patel BA,Jashashvili T,Bui SH,Carlson KJ,Griffin NL,Wallace IJ,Orr CM,Susman RL

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptations indicative of habitual bipedalism are present in the earliest recognized hominins. However, debate persists about various aspects of bipedal locomotor behavior in fossil hominins, including the nature of gait kinematics, locomotor variability across different species, and the degree to which various austra...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Ryan TM,Carlson KJ,Gordon AD,Jablonski N,Shaw CN,Stock JT

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present pounded objects from excavations at HWK EE and EF-HR, which are studied from macro and microscopic perspectives. Analysis of HWK EE revealed one of the largest collections of percussive objects from Olduvai Gorge, while excavations at EF-HR have allowed us to recover a much wider collection o...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Arroyo A,de la Torre I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the biogeographical and evolutionary histories of macaques (Macaca spp.) in East Asia because the phylogenetic positions of fossil species remain unclear. Here we examined the zygomaxillary remains of a fossil macaque (M. cf. robusta) from the Durubong Cave Complex, South Korea, that dates back t...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Ito T,Lee YJ,Nishimura TD,Tanaka M,Woo JY,Takai M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though late Middle Pleistocene in age, Homo naledi is characterized by a mosaic of Australopithecus-like (e.g., curved fingers, small brains) and Homo-like (e.g., elongated lower limbs) traits, which may suggest it occupied a unique ecological niche. Ecological reconstructions inform on niche occupation, and are parti...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Berthaume MA,Delezene LK,Kupczik K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recovery to date of three complete and five partial femora, seven complete tibiae, and four complete fibulae from the Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos site provides an opportunity to analyze the biomechanical cross-sectional properties in this Middle Pleistocene population and to compare them with those of other fossi...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Rodríguez L,Carretero JM,García-González R,Arsuaga JL

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeological excavations at the DK site in the eastern Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, age-bracketed between ∼1.88 Ma (Bed I Basalt) and ∼1.85 Ma (Tuff IB), record the oldest lahar inundation, modification, and preservation of a hominin "occupation" site yet identified. Our landscape approach reconstructs environments and ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Stanistreet IG,Stollhofen H,Njau JK,Farrugia P,Pante MC,Masao FT,Albert RM,Bamford MK

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous attempts to estimate body mass in pre-Holocene hominins have relied on prediction equations derived from relatively limited extant samples. Here we derive new equations to predict body mass from femoral head breadth and proximal tibial plateau breadth based on a large and diverse sample of modern humans (avoi...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Ruff CB,Burgess ML,Squyres N,Junno JA,Trinkaus E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining accurate estimations of the body mass of fossil primates has always been a subject of interest in paleoanthropology because mass is an important determinant for so many other aspects of biology, ecology, and life history. This paper focuses on the issues involved in attempting to reconstruct the mass of two ...

journal_title：Journal of human evolution

authors： Dagosto M,Gebo D,Ni X,Smith T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00