{"title":"Reassessment of the morphological evidence for hominin hybrids in the Levant","authors":"Suzy White, Chris Stringer","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70216","url":null,"abstract":"The Levantine hominin fossil and archaeological records have played a central role in long‐standing palaeoanthropological debates over origin models and possible interbreeding between Neanderthals ( <jats:italic>Homo neanderthalensis</jats:italic> ) and <jats:italic>Homo sapiens</jats:italic> . Recent research has provided a strong framework for the morphological expectations of recent hybrid ancestry in primates, along with renewed suggestions that early Late Pleistocene hominins from the Levant show morphological evidence of hybridization. Here we address these developments by using established diagnostic features of <jats:italic>H. sapiens</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>H. neanderthalensis</jats:italic> to review possible fossil evidence of hybridization from the key Levantine sites of Qafzeh, Skhūl, and Tabūn. We conclude that, while individuals from these sites show a perplexing combination of characteristics that broadly overlap with expectations of hybridization, this explanation can only be established once other alternatives have been ruled out, or through the recovery of genetic material from these key fossils.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment by David Wengrow","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"232 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Niekerk, Carl. Enlightenment anthropology: defining humanity in an era of colonialism. xi, 257 pp., bibliogr. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. $39.99 (paper)","authors":"Han F. Vermeulen","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lukasik, Candace. Martyrs and migrants: Coptic Christians and the persecution politics of US empire. 304 pp., bibliogr. New York: University Press, 2025. $32.00 (paper)","authors":"Heather J. Sharkey","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Özden‐Schilling, Tom. The ends of research: Indigenous and settler science after the War in the Woods. 294 pp., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2023. $107.95 (hardback)","authors":"Thomas McIlwraith","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mason, Arthur (ed.). Arctic abstractive industry: assembling the valuable and vulnerable north. 192 pp., illus., bibliogr. New York: Berghahn, 2024. $29.95 (paper)","authors":"John P. Ziker","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smith, Monica L. (ed.) The power of nature: archaeology and human–environmental dynamics. 288 pp., illus., bibliogr. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023. £72.00 (hardback)","authors":"Christian Isendahl","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"39 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borisova, Elena. Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: locating the good life. 244 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2024. £30.00 (paper)","authors":"Kaiyan Wang","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nourse, Erin K.Water into bones: birth rituals, ancestors, and religious pluralism in Northern Madagascar. 288 pp., bibliogr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025. $42.00 (paper)","authors":"Anders Norge","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.70234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.70234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}