The first dating study of Pirro Nord, Italy, traditionally regarded as the oldest archaeological site in western Europe, indicates that it is probably much younger than anticipated
A study describes the main existing morphological differences in the internal structures of the canines of men and women, revealing new keys to sex estimation in human populations
A wide-ranging review in the Journal of Comparative Neurology which describes the relationship between fossils and cognition following the tenets of cognitive archaeology, namely, by applying psychological models to those behaviors relevant to human evolution
The strengthening of the summer monsoon played a key role in the dispersion of Homo sapiens from Africa to East Asia during the interglacial between 70,000 and 125,000 years ago
There is no proof that ‘Homo naledi’ exhibited cognitively advanced behaviors, such as intentional burial of the dead and rock art
The earliest Europeans were efficient scavengers: scavenging could have been a successful strategy for the first hominins in the Iberian Peninsula
A Roman-period cranial tumor case from Spain; the cranium was discovered during a caving expedition to the Sima de Marcenejas
The excavation campaign 2023 has just finished at the Cova Gran site, researchers are working on 3D models of the terrain in La Noguera where Linya died 14,000 years ago
New clues to the behavioral variability of Neanderthal hunting parties; a camp at the Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site in Pinilla del Valle
A new study ratifies that carnivores did not participate in the accumulation of human remains in the Sima de los Huesos