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Sulfur isotope excursions in skeletal collagen samples from Eurasia suggest rapidly changing biogeochemical processes across the region from about 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, potentially related to ch...

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Ancient amino acids suggest German weapons are some 100,000 years younger than once thought

Scientific Reports - A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record

The marine isotope stage 3 (MIS 3) (∼60–30 ka) exhibits large amplitude millennial climatic oscillations, also named Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) cycles, w…

Scientific Reports - A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record

This special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews comprises a series of review papers which discuss the application of stable isotopes to different typ…

Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource str...

Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways

The use of isotopic analysis for human mobility, geolocation, and forensic identification has become common over the past two decades, yet its effectiveness depends on the availability of well-docume....

Revisiting collections from old excavations with new research objectives and analytical tools brings them to life and integrates them into evolving models of human-landscape interactions. This paper e...

Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...

PhD Project - Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen , listed on F...

The evolving role of past human populations in broader ecosystem processes is an important frontier in palaeoecological research yet remains notorious…

Human-environment interactions and spatio-temporal organization of the activities are of prime importance to decipher Paleolithic way of life. To addr…

By Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner 2024 was another year of discoveries in human evolution that help us understand our origins, our…

Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

The biological sex estimation of human individuals can be achieved by extracting fragments of the amelogenin protein from small areas of tooth enamel.…

ABSTRACT. Oxygen stable isotope (δ18O) analysis of marine biogenic carbonates is widely used to study the temperature at which the hard parts precipitated.

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