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The site of Notarchirico (Venosa Basin, Italy) and the hominin behavior in the Middle Pleistocene: New insights from taphonomy and spatial archaeology
Volume 211, February 2026, 103789Author links open overlay panel, , , , , , AbstractThe early Middle Pleistocene is charac...
Context matters: Grăunceanu (Romania) is not an archaeological site
The spatiotemporal distribution patterns of early hominins, as evidenced by fossil remains and lithic artefacts, provide c...
Reconstructing dietary preferences in the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos population: A molar macrowear perspective
Volume 211, February 2026, 103797Author links open overlay panel, , , , , , AbstractMolar macrowear analysis is a valuable...
Endurance pursuit hunting among recent foragers and its relevance for hominin locomotor evolution
Volume 212, March 2026, 103807Author links open overlay panel, AbstractTextual analysis of 425 cases of endurance pursuit ...
The nutritional quality of male chimpanzee diets in a semiarid savanna
Nutritional ecology is of central importance to understanding primate foraging and social behavior (Lambert and Rothman, 2...
Cranial vault thickness, its internal organization, and its relationship with endocranial shape in Neanderthals and modern humans
Volume 204, July 2025, 103683Author links open overlay panel, , , , AbstractCompared to the more elongated crania of Neand...
Uniform, circular, and shallow enamel pitting in hominins: Prevalence, morphological associations, and potential taxonomic significance
Volume 204, July 2025, 103703Author links open overlay panel, , , , , , , , , , , , , AbstractThis study explores a partic...
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş fossil hominin from Turkey and implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance: A commentary on Mori et al. (2024)
The Kocabaş fossil hominin consists of a fragmentary skull made up of three fragments: a right part of the frontal bone in...
Corrigendum to “Maxilla of Siamopithecus eocaenus (Anthropoidea, Primates) from the Paleogene of Krabi, Thailand, and its taxonomic status” [J. Hum. Evol. 198 (2025) 103614]
Volume 204, July 2025, 103701Author links open overlay panelYaowalak Chaimanee a, Sasidhorn Khansubha b, Olivier Chavassea...
The shape of technology to come: An examination of evolutionary relationships between bifacial and core technologies at the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic boundary across regions in Eurasia
Levallois technology is often considered one of many hallmarks of the Middle Palaeolithic (MP) and Middle Stone Age (MSA),...
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited
Recent studies have challenged the long-held notion that Neanderthals possessed a more stable and less lordotic cervical s...
Clavicular evidence for continued arboreality in Australopithecus afarensis
The locomotor adaptation of Australopithecus has long been of interest to paleoanthropologists due to the taxon's morpholo...
Continuity and innovation in the Late Acheulian: Technological and functional analysis of scrapers from Jaljulia, Southern Levant (500–300 ka)
Volume 205, August 2025, 103716Author links open overlay panel, , , Highlights•Acheulian scrapers were manufactured within...
Ilium morphological variation during growth in forager populations
Volume 205, August 2025, 103717Author links open overlay panel, , , Highlights•Population-based patterning in ilium morpho...
Aridity, availability of drinking water and freshwater foods, and hominin and archeological sites during the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene in the western region of the Turkana Basin (Kenya): A review
Aridity, availability of drinking water and freshwater foods, and hominin and archeological sites during the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene in the western region of the Turkana Basin (Kenya): A review
Over the past 25 years, numerous authors have linked climate change and hominin evolution based on the premise that resour...
Modern human atlas ranges of motion and Neanderthal estimations
Modern human atlas ranges of motion and Neanderthal estimations
Volume 187, February 2024, 103482Author links open overlay panel, , , , , Highlights•No clear relation between upper cervi...
Hypoconulid loss in cercopithecins: Functional and developmental considerations
Hypoconulid loss in cercopithecins: Functional and developmental considerations
The cercopithecoids are a diverse group of primates, which are believed to have split from the hominoids some 25–23 Ma (Gi...
New Neanderthal remains from Axlor cave (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula)
New Neanderthal remains from Axlor cave (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula)
The Iberian Peninsula documents a long history of Neanderthal evolution. In the northern region early Neanderthals are doc...
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation
Homo naledi was diagnosed as a novel taxon based on the morphology of approximately 1550 fossils, whole and fragmentary, r...
Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)
Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)
Volume 186, January 2024, 103469Author links open overlay panel, , , AbstractRecent Plio-Pleistocene hominin findings have...
Age-depth model for uppermost Ndutu Beds constrains Middle Stone Age technology and climate-induced paleoenvironmental changes at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Age-depth model for uppermost Ndutu Beds constrains Middle Stone Age technology and climate-induced paleoenvironmental changes at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Volume 186, January 2024, 103465Author links open overlay panel, , , , , , Highlights•A new higher-resolution age-depth mo...
Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)
Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)
Volume 186, January 2024, 103468Author links open overlay panelAlastair Key a, Tomos Proffitt bShow morePrevious article i...
Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements
Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements
The dynamics of the transition between late Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), also referred to as the Mi...
Differences in maxillary premolar form between Cercocebus and Lophocebus
Differences in maxillary premolar form between Cercocebus and Lophocebus
Field observations of the sooty mangabey Cercocebus atys reveal that these monkeys consume hard foods year-round. (McGraw ...
Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia
Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia
The genus Macaca represents one of the most successful extant primate genera, exhibiting the second largest geographic dis...
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)
Ekgmowechashala is a poorly documented but very distinctive primate known only from the late early Oligocene (early Arikar...
No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art
No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art
The Rising Star Cave system has yielded a stunning concentration of hominin remains estimated to belong to more than 15 in...
Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space: A direct comparison of the spatial patterning within Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air sites
Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space: A direct comparison of the spatial patterning within Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air sites
In several previous papers (Clark, 2016, 2017, 2019), I reported on the intrasite spatial analysis of seven Middle Paleoli...
The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site
The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site
Volume 185, December 2023, 103453Author links open overlay panel, , , , AbstractThe Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is one...
Estimation of the upper diaphragm in KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus s.l.) and Kebara 2 (Homo neanderthalensis) using a Homo sapiens model
Estimation of the upper diaphragm in KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus s.l.) and Kebara 2 (Homo neanderthalensis) using a Homo sapiens model
The study of thoracic biomechanics in Homo sapiens provides highly valuable information to areas such as respiratory medic...
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