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{"title":"Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium through direct radiocarbon dating of bone implements","authors":"Grégory Abrams , Thibaut Devièse , Stéphane Pirson , Isabelle De Groote , Damien Flas , Cécile Jungels , Ivan Jadin , Pierre Cattelain , Dominique Bonjean , Aurore Mathys , Patrick Semal , Thomas Higham , Kévin Di Modica","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103471"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138474011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differences in maxillary premolar form between Cercocebus and Lophocebus","authors":"Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg , Kaita Gurian , W. Scott McGraw","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103467","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103467"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138296574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia","authors":"Christos Alexandros Plastiras ,&nbsp;Ghislain Thiery ,&nbsp;Franck Guy ,&nbsp;David M. Alba ,&nbsp;Takeshi Nishimura ,&nbsp;Dimitris S. Kostopoulos ,&nbsp;Gildas Merceron","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The genus <em>Macaca</em> includes medium- to large-bodied monkeys and represents one of the most diverse primate genera, also having a very large geographic range. Nowadays, wild macaque populations are found in Asia and Africa, inhabiting a wide array of habitats. Fossil macaques were also present in Europe from the Late Miocene until the Late Pleistocene. Macaques are considered ecologically flexible monkeys that exhibit highly opportunistic dietary strategies, which may have been critical to their evolutionary success. Nevertheless, available ecological information regarding fossil European species is very sparse, limiting our knowledge of their evolutionary history in this geographic area. To further our understanding of fossil European macaque ecology, we investigated the dietary ecology of <em>Macaca majori</em>, an insular endemic species from Sardinia. In particular, we characterized the dental capabilities and potential dietary adaptations of <em>M. majori</em> through dental topographic and enamel thickness analyses of two M²s from the Early Pleistocene site of Capo Figari (1.8 Ma). We also assessed its diet through dental microwear texture analysis, while the microwear texture of <em>M. majori</em> was also compared with microwear textures from other European fossil macaques from mainland Europe. The dental topographic and enamel thickness analyses suggest that <em>M. majori</em> frequently consumes hard/mechanically challenging and/or abrasive foods. The results of the dental microwear analysis are consistent with this interpretation and further suggest that <em>M. majori</em> probably exhibited more durophagous dietary habits than mainland Plio-Pleistocene macaques. Overall, our results indicate that <em>M. majori</em> probably occupied a different dietary niche compared to its mainland fossil relatives, which suggests that they may have inhabited different paleoenvironments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103454"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134656087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103464","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"195 ","pages":"Article 103464"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89720624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)","authors":"Kathleen Rust ,&nbsp;Xijun Ni ,&nbsp;Kristen Tietjen ,&nbsp;K. Christopher Beard","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103452","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103452","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Ekgmowechashala</em> is a poorly documented but very distinctive primate known only from the late early Oligocene (early Arikareean) of western North America. Because of its highly autapomorphous dentition and spatiotemporal isolation, the phylogenetic and biogeographic affinities of <em>Ekgmowechashala</em> have long been debated. Here, we describe the oldest known fossils of <em>Ekgmowechashala</em> from the Brown Siltstone Beds of the Brule Formation, White River Group of western Nebraska. We also describe a new ekgmowechashaline taxon from the Nadu Formation (late Eocene) in the Baise Basin of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that North American <em>Ekgmowechashala</em> and the new Chinese taxon are sister taxa that are nested within a radiation of southern Asian adapiforms that also includes <em>Gatanthropus</em>, <em>Muangthanhinius</em>, and <em>Bugtilemur</em>. The new Chinese ekgmowechashaline helps fill the considerable disparity in dental morphology between <em>Ekgmowechashala</em> and more primitive ekgmowechashalids known from southern Asia. Our study underscores the fundamental role of southern Asia as a refugium for multiple primate clades during the cooler and drier climatic regime that prevailed after the Eocene–Oligocene transition. The colonization of North America by <em>Ekgmowechashala</em> helps define the beginning of the Arikareean Land Mammal Age and corresponds to an example of the Lazarus effect, whereby a taxon (in this case, the order Primates) reappears suddenly in the fossil record after a lengthy hiatus.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103452"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001318/pdfft?md5=4dfa24e471992d82c8ca17e00c24b29e&pid=1-s2.0-S0047248423001318-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71489115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site","authors":"Evgeny P. Rybin ,&nbsp;Natalia E. Belousova ,&nbsp;Anatoly P. Derevianko ,&nbsp;Katerina Douka ,&nbsp;Tom Higham","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103453","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103453","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is one of the most important phases in the recent period of the evolution of humans. During a narrow period in the first half of Marine Isotope Stage 3 laminar industries, accompanied by developed symbolism and specific blade technology, emerged over a vast area, replacing different variants of the Middle Paleolithic. In western Eurasia, the earliest appearance of IUP technology is seen at the Boker Tachtit site, dated ca. 50 ka cal BP. The earliest evidence of IUP industries in the Balkans and Central Europe, linked to the spread of <em>Homo sapiens</em>, has been dated to around 48 ka cal BP. A key area of IUP dispersals are the mountains and piedmont of southern Siberia and eastern Central Asia. One of the reference assemblages here is Kara-Bom, an open-air site in the Siberian Altai. Three major settlement phases are distinguished in the sediment sequence. In this paper, we present the results of new radiocarbon determinations and Bayesian models. We find that the latest phase of the IUP, Upper Paleolithic 1 (‘UP1’) is bracketed between 43 and 35 ka cal BP (at 95.4% probability). The earliest IUP phase, ‘UP2’, begins to accumulate from ca. 49 ka cal BP and ends by ca. 45 ka cal BP. The Middle Paleolithic ‘MP2’ assemblages all fall prior to 50 ka cal BP. We can detect a spatial distribution of dates from the geographic core of the IUP beyond the Altai where it appears around 47–45 ka cal BP. The current distribution of dates suggests a west–east dispersal of the IUP technocomplex along the mountain belts of Central Asia and South Siberia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103453"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724842300132X/pdfft?md5=baa3b63a2526e19b7f83c0f9813a898d&pid=1-s2.0-S004724842300132X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71489114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space: A direct comparison of the spatial patterning within Middle and Upper Paleolithic open-air sites","authors":"Amy E. Clark","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although the ‘organization of space’ is said to be one of the defining characteristics of modern human behavior, the identification and documentation of such organization has proven to be elusive, especially as rendered in artifact patterning. Without directly comparing artifact patterns within multiple sites, there is no benchmark with which to conclude one site to be more or less ‘organized’ than another. We can objectively identify patterns within the distribution of archaeological materials, but the decision of whether that patterning constitutes as ‘organized’ is entirely subjective without a comparative model. In this paper, I present the results of a study in which the spatial distribution of artifacts within nine Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites in France are directly compared to one another, and discernible changes in patterning can be identified. The differences in spatial patterning between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites suggest that the organization of space likely became increasingly formalized into and throughout the Upper Paleolithic alongside other cultural norms of behavior. Though more sites are needed to thoroughly document this phenomenon, this study suggests that direct comparisons of spatial patterning have the potential to yield more objective results on the question of spatial organization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61566167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimation of the upper diaphragm in KNM-WT 15000 (Homo erectus s.l.) and Kebara 2 (Homo neanderthalensis) using a Homo sapiens model","authors":"José M. López-Rey ,&nbsp;Daniel García-Martínez ,&nbsp;Sandra Martelli ,&nbsp;Benoît Beyer ,&nbsp;Carlos A. Palancar ,&nbsp;Isabel Torres-Sánchez ,&nbsp;Francisco García-Río ,&nbsp;Markus Bastir","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103442","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103442"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49685173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paleoenvironmental inferences on the Late Miocene hominoid-bearing site of Can Llobateres (NE Iberian Peninsula): An ecometric approach based on functional dental traits","authors":"Sara G. Arranz ,&nbsp;Isaac Casanovas-Vilar ,&nbsp;Indrė Žliobaitė ,&nbsp;Juan Abella ,&nbsp;Chiara Angelone ,&nbsp;Beatriz Azanza ,&nbsp;Raymond Bernor ,&nbsp;Omar Cirilli ,&nbsp;Daniel DeMiguel ,&nbsp;Marc Furió ,&nbsp;Luca Pandolfi ,&nbsp;Josep M. Robles ,&nbsp;Israel M. Sánchez ,&nbsp;Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende ,&nbsp;David M. Alba","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Hispanopithecus laietanus</em><span> from the Late Miocene (9.8 Ma) of Can Llobateres 1 (CLL1; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) represents one of the latest occurrences of fossil apes in Western mainland Europe, where they are last recorded at ∼9.5 Ma. The paleoenvironment of CLL1 is thus relevant for understanding the extinction of European hominoids. To refine paleoenvironmental inferences for CLL1, we apply ecometric models based on functional crown type (FCT) variables—a scoring scheme devised to capture macroscopic functional traits of occlusal shape and wear surfaces of herbivorous large mammal molars. Paleotemperature and paleoprecipitation estimates for CLL1 are provided based on published regional regression models linking average FCT of large herbivorous mammal communities to climatic conditions. A mapping to Whittaker's present-day biome classification is also attempted based on these estimates, as well as a case-based reasoning via canonical variate analysis of FCT variables from five relevant biomes. Estimates of mean annual temperature (25 °C) and mean annual precipitation (881 mm) classify CLL1 as a tropical seasonal forest/savanna, only in partial agreement with the canonical variate analysis results, which classify CLL1 as a tropical rainforest with a higher probability. The former biome agrees better with previous inferences derived from fossil plants and mammals, as well as preliminary isotopic data. The misclassification of CLL1 as a tropical forest is attributed to the mixture of forest-adapted taxa with others adapted to more open environments, given that faunal and plant composition indicates the presence of a dense wetland/riparian forest with more open woodlands nearby. The tested FCT ecometric approaches do not provide unambiguous biome classification for CLL1. Nevertheless, our results are consistent with those from other approaches, thus suggesting that FCT variables are potentially useful to investigate paleoenvironmental changes through time and space—including those that led to the extinction of European Miocene apes.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103441"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49685174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sexual dimorphism in the cranium and endocast of the eastern lowland gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri)","authors":"Caitlin Man ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Gilissen ,&nbsp;Margot Michaud","doi":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103439","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103439","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Sexual dimorphism of the nervous system<span> has been reported for a wide range of vertebrates. However, understanding of sexual dimorphism in primate cranial structures and soft tissues, and more particularly the brain, remains limited. In this study, we aimed to investigate the external and internal (i.e., endocast) cranial differences between male and female eastern </span></span>lowland gorillas (</span><span><em>Gorilla beringei</em><em> graueri</em></span><span><span>). We examined the differences in the size, shape, and disparity with the aim to compare how sexual dimorphism can impact these two structures distinctively, with a particular focus on the endocranium. To do so, we reconstructed gorilla external crania and endocasts from CT scans and used 3D geometric morphometric techniques combined with multivariate analyses to assess the cranial and endocranial differences between the sexes. Our results highlighted sexual dimorphism for the external cranium and endocast<span> with regard to both size and shape. In particular, males display an elongated face accompanied by a pronounced sagittal crest and an elongated endocast along the rostroposterior axis, in contrast to females who are identified by a more rounded brain case and endocast. Males also show a significantly larger external cranium and endocast size than females. In addition, we described important differences for the posterior cranial fossae (i.e., the position of the </span></span>cerebellum<span> within the brain case) and olfactory bulb between the two sexes. Particularly, our results highlighted that, relatively to males, females have larger posterior cranial fossae, whereas males have been characterized by a larger and rostrally oriented olfactory bulb.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":54805,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Human Evolution","volume":"184 ","pages":"Article 103439"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41173070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}