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{"title":"The Zambia Rift Valley research project: Exploring human evolution at the crossroads of Africa","authors":"Amy L. Rector ,&nbsp;Lucas K. Delezene ,&nbsp;Thierra K. Nalley ,&nbsp;Amelia Villaseñor","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Key evolutionary events in hominin evolution occurred between 3.5 and 2.4 Ma, including the origins of flaked tool technology and the first appearance of the genera <em>Homo</em> and <em>Paranthropus</em>. This period remains poorly understood, however, because deposits of this age are rarely exposed across Africa. The Luangwa River Valley of eastern Zambia is part of the southernmost extension of the East African Rift System; a fossil femur from South Luangwa, identified as <em>Theropithecus</em> cf<em>.</em> <em>darti</em>, hints at the presence of fossiliferous beds of this age in the Luangwa Valley. Additionally, Middle Pleistocene fossils and Early and Middle Stone Age artifacts have also been recovered in sediments adjacent to the Luangwa River. Fossils from these deposits could contribute data on the diversification of hominins and mammals that occurred during the Plio-Pleistocene. The Luangwa River also supports a rich modern mammalian community that represents a critical analogue for reconstructing hominin paleoenvironments. However, no systematic ecological characterizations of living or past mammalian communities of the Luangwa River Valley have been completed. The newly initiated Zambia Rift Valley Research Project (ZRVRP) will analyze the ecology of modern and fossil Luangwa River mammalian and human communities using dental microwear, enamel and collagen isotopic composition, the distribution of bones, fossils, and vegetation on the landscape, and archaeological materials. Patterns of paleoenvironmental change, climatic seasonality, and hominin landscape use over time will provide important comparative context for other Plio-Pleistocene sites. Here, we describe the goals, methods, and community engagement of the ZRVRP, and some challenges involved in launching new paleoanthropological field research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 5","pages":"Article 103211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138549938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recherches préhistoriques en Côte d’Ivoire : non-développements récents sur le site d’Anyama (district d’Abidjan)","authors":"Charles N’zi Dibié,&nbsp;François Guédé Yiodé","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review paper presents an inventory of prehistoric sites from Ivory Coast, highlighting the issues with Stone Age sites protection policy. Beyond this inventory of the main known sites, we emphasize the current state of the classified Anyama site which shows quite well the deficiencies of institutional, legislative, and funding mechanisms for research on the Stone Age of Ivory Coast. Our methodological approach combines archaeological documentary research with an analysis of Ivorian legislation on cultural heritage. The crosschecking of these multiple data enables, among other results, to underline recent advances and non-developments of prehistoric archeology in Ivory Coast.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 5","pages":"Article 103215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138549939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review","authors":"Telmo Pereira ,&nbsp;Luiz Oosterbeek ,&nbsp;David Pleurdeau ,&nbsp;Abdoulaye Camara ,&nbsp;Hamady Bocoum ,&nbsp;Djibril Thiam ,&nbsp;Raphael A. Alabi ,&nbsp;Lassina Kote ,&nbsp;Lassane Toubga ,&nbsp;Maria Helena Benjamim ,&nbsp;Alma Nankela ,&nbsp;Daniela de Matos","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103209","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Evidence of early <em>Homo sapiens</em> populations at the Atlantic coast of Africa remains relatively poorly known in relation to other regions of the continent. Nevertheless, available data across the continent provides a good starting point for current and future research investigations. The many sites known, documented and studied contribute in an increasingly way to the global understanding of the human emergence, including evidence of human evolutionary and technological advances, specific adaptations to diverse environments, the diffusion of <em>Homo</em><span> species and how humans interacted with each other from the “Early Stone Age (ESA)” through to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) from northern and southern Africa to the West. The differences of knowledge between the Atlantic coast in regard to other regions might be attributed to a number of reasons including but not limited to the history of scientific interest, site formation processes or economic, institutional and political constraints. However, the region received a renewed attention and funds that, combined with new methods and techniques, has been allowing an increased training of new researchers and the acquisition of high-resolution archaeological, paleoenvironmental and chronological data. Together, these inputs will reduce the differences of knowledge between the Atlantic coast and the Northern, Southern and Eastern Africa regions. The African Atlantic Coast represents more than 40% of the continent's perimeter, covering all Africa's climate zones, the hot arid environments, mountainous regions, and tropical rainforest could become relevant barriers for human mobility, but the shallow continental platform, and the great number of river basins allowed mobility between north and south coastal biomes into the continental interiors. These may have provided predictable patchy clusters of resources allowing human populations to thrive, enabling greater mobility and consequent diffusion of cultural traits, resources, and DNA. In this paper we review the record about the prehistory, paleoenvironments and paleoanthropological visibility and potentiality of Atlantic Africa.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 5","pages":"Article 103209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138549968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Des galets pour les industries paléolithiques de la zone sous-himalayenne","authors":"Claire Gaillard ,&nbsp;Mukesh Singh ,&nbsp;Baldev Singh Karir","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sub-Himalayas are comprised of Pliocene and Pleistocene formations, the Upper Siwaliks, shaped by the still active tectonics and by the Himalayan Rivers and their tributaries building terraces. All these terrains have yielded, at least from surface, Palaeolithic remains, whose ages are difficult to assess precisely. The earliest evidence of human activity probably occurs at the end of Pliocene. Undoubtedly, peopling was not continuous but lithic industries witness each of the main Palaeolithic technical phases. Until the end of the Middle Palaeolithic, technical practices in Sub-Himalayas are consistent with those in Peninsular India, south of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, yet with always more cobble tools, especially in surface collections. Such industries were named Soanian. However, from the time when the so-called “modern” behaviours emerged in Peninsular India, around 45 ka, the Sub-Himalayas continued to accommodate lithic industries with cobble tools in increasing proportion. This makes this region more akin to Southeast Asia, where industries of this time period belong to Hoabinhian tradition, rich in cobble tools, of which the “sumatraliths” are the most significant tool type. The question remains to know which phenomenon induced these diverging technical practices between north and south of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pré-histoire(s) tropicale(s) et subtropicales(s)","authors":"Stéphanie Bonilauri,&nbsp;Hubert Forestier","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135456090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dental modification techniques in Neolithic and modern Cambodia","authors":"Jean-Pierre de Saint-Aubert ,&nbsp;Sophie de Saint-Aubert ,&nbsp;Heng Sophady ,&nbsp;Estelle Joffre ,&nbsp;Hubert Forestier ,&nbsp;Ngov Kosal ,&nbsp;Valery Zeitoun","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intentional dental modifications are known to have occurred on several continents at different periods and have been used as a diachronic bio-cultural marker to reconstruct the history of human settlement<span> on different geographical scales. Such practices, present since the Neolithic in Southeast Asia, are thought to have originated in China and to co-exist in different forms in archaeological sites. There are many gaps and the proportion of archaeological evidence of these practices varies, making it impossible to trace their history and evolution perfectly. However, in Cambodia, cases of dental ablations are known from the Neolithic, the Metal Age and historical periods, and joint cases of dental abrasions or ablations have been attested since the Metal Age. As cases of dental abrasion were documented right up to the end of the twentieth century, this article aims to provide information on the still living memory of the motivations and techniques used by the mountain populations of Cambodia. As a complement and in comparison, we will present the unpublished cases of the Neolithic burials at the Laang Spean site, which bear witness to similar practices and raise questions about their relationship with those that persist today among certain ethnic groups.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136094972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Outils bifaciaux multifonctionnels emmanchés comme marqueurs des premiers habitants des forêts de montagne en Colombie occidentale","authors":"Carlos Eduardo López,&nbsp;Martha Cecilia Cano","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The sub-Andean forests in the Middle Cauca River Valley (Central West of Colombia) show evidences of preceramic lithic industry, recovered from paleo-soils buried by volcanic debris. Their production and use were dated by 12,000 to 4000 BP. Lithic assemblages included cobbles with modified edges with surface modification by use. According to the shape, size or raw material those instruments were used as hammers or ground-stones. Other flint knapped products, such as cores and flakes, or products of bipolar percussion, are present. Additionally, in those cultural contexts there were some particular instruments with bifacial manufacture, standardized shape and preparation for hafting. Those instruments were used in different tasks, basically for preparation of soils toward domestication and harvest of plants. Lithic assemblages were localized on rolling hills, alluvial or colluvial terraces. Artifacts demonstrated careful selection of raw material, from volcanic or metamorphic origin. A relative stability can be proposed during the Early and Middle Holocene in the inland basin of Cauca, taking into account the similar typological and technological characteristics of the lithic ensembles, attesting to the role of this region in the origins of horticulture.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136128024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Façonnage unifacial et débitage bipolaire sur enclume : deux classiques de la préhistoire brésilienne","authors":"Antoine Lourdeau ,&nbsp;Jade Paiva De Lima ,&nbsp;Cleiciane Aiane Noleto","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the Brazilian tropics, while <em>débitage</em> methods have generally undergone limited evolution, various solutions were sought to obtain tool blanks with controlled volumetric characteristics during the late Pleistocene and Holocene periods. One such solution was the unifacial shaping. It was particularly developed between 12,000 and 8000 BP in a vast area of central Brazil. It produced tools with varied functional potential. These unifacial pieces are found in a technical system where they are complemented by relatively standardized retouched flakes. This ensemble corresponds to what is known as the Itaparica Technocomplex, and emerged at a decisive moment in the densification of the region's population. Bipolar-on-anvil <em>débitage</em> is another facet of the technical solutions developed by prehistoric populations in Brazil. Although it receives less attention in the literature than other productions, it is nonetheless almost ubiquitous. Using a variety of methods, this <em>débitage</em> can be employed to produce a wide range of products, depending on the period and context. Recurrently, it is used to obtain medium to very small-sized products, whose functional purpose is not always well understood. These two examples illustrate the particularities of the technical history of Brazil's prehistoric populations. They highlight the choice of a different trajectory from that of their European contemporaries, who focused instead on the development of <em>débitage</em> concepts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136117667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The knapping strategies in the Paleolithic on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China: A regional particularity","authors":"Yuduan Zhou ,&nbsp;Zixuan Shen ,&nbsp;Yun Wu ,&nbsp;Sifu Cai ,&nbsp;Hubert Forestier ,&nbsp;Xueping Ji ,&nbsp;Yinghua Li","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Paleolithic industry in southern China has long been considered as “cobble-tool tradition” or “chopper-chopping tool”, or even “Mode 1” in the international community since the 1940s (Movius, 1948). However, these denominations are biased since local facts are much more diversified not only because of the discovery of the bifacial phenomenon in Bose (Guangxi, southern China), but also the presence of a debitage (core-flaking) tradition on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of southwestern China. This study will present the general lithic traditions in the southwestern Chinese provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan, where existed a long-lasting debitage culture and small flake-tool industry in the lithic assemblages dating to the Early Pleistocene until the Early Holocene. These lithic traditions are still not well recognized among researchers, and this situation could hinder the discussion of other archaeological phenomena in this region, such as the emergence of the Hoabinhian in Yunnan Province. The debitage tradition in southwestern China may represent regional adaptations and technological stability of the populations in a subtropical mountainous and forest environment. In this context, the appearance of large shaped tools and other knapping strategies and bone industry in the final Late Pleistocene (after 50–40 ka BP) on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau seems to be a “sudden event” and may indicate local innovations or the arrival of new populations, and contribute to the cultural diversification in the region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Du minéral à la structure et vice-versa : nouvelles observations méthodologiques et expérimentales sur le phénomène galet depuis les régions tropicales d’Amérique du Sud","authors":"Antonio Pérez-Balarezo ,&nbsp;Marcos Paulo de Melo Ramos ,&nbsp;Sibeli A. Viana ,&nbsp;Anderson Marques Garcia ,&nbsp;Edwin Silva ,&nbsp;Éric Boëda","doi":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103171","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103171","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the field of archaeology, the pebble — a raw mineral material — is frequently subject to biased interpretations that obstruct its objective comprehension. Countering stereotypes that equate the pebble with primitiveness, this article seeks to reevaluate its technical utility. We delineate three primary methods of pebble exploitation: (1) unaltered use, wherein its mass serves functions such as a percussor or projectile, via a process of complete Affordance; (2) complete transformation into a distinct tool through the processes of Shaping or Flaking; and (3) its conceptualization as an assemblage composed of multiple sub-units, which through the interplay of Shaping, Flaking, and Affordance, constitute a matrix. This latter approach necessitates the acknowledgement that certain sections of the pebble are intentionally selected and conserved for prospective technical functions. Building on this classification, we scrutinize a range of archaeological and experimental instances from tropical regions where the pebble holds a pivotal role in toolkits. Through a techno-functional examination, we underscore the complexity of the pebble as a technical entity, thus revealing the distinctiveness of numerous cultures throughout history. This study suggests an alternative to the dominant interpretation focused on the peri-Mediterranean region, instead casting the pebble as a unique, diverse, universal, and timeless phenomenon.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46860,"journal":{"name":"Anthropologie","volume":"127 4","pages":"Article 103171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135889872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}