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Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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5 papers

Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America

Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan, Arturo Jaimes, Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia, Oscar E. Wilson, Kévin Le Verger, Dimila Mothé, Diego Vargas, Andrés E. Reyes-Cespedes, Lautaro Maximiliam Hilbert, Rodolfo Sánchez, Nohé Gonzalo Gilson, Olivier Tombret, Astrid Bauville, Marine Libot, , Marcelo Ricardo Sánchez-Villagra

Bone modification analyses, tooth enamel radiocarbon dates, and dental calculus microfossils indicate that Late Pleistocene humans exploited at least five megaherbivore species at a savannah watering hole in Venezuela.

Quaternary Science Reviews · Jul 5, 2026Peer-reviewedPaleontology✦ In-depth digest

A global map for introgressed structural variation and selection in humans

PingHsun Hsieh, Natthapon Soisangwan, David Gordon, Athef Javidh, William T. Harvey, David Porubskỳ, Kendra Hoekzema, Carl A. Baker, Katherine M. Munson, Christopher Kinipi, Matthew Leavesley, Nicolas Brucato, Murray P. Cox, François‐Xavier Ricaut, Irene Gallego Romero, Evan E. Eichler

Long-read phased assemblies from two Papuans plus 47 HPRC genomes map archaic introgressed structural variants, revealing 11 candidate archaic centromeres and 16 candidate adaptive SVs.

Science · Jun 11, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology✦ In-depth digest

Earliest Evidence of Elephant Butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Reveals the Evolutionary Impact of Early Human Megafaunal Exploitation

Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano, Abel Moclán, David Uribelarrea, José Ángel Correa Cano, Fernando Diéz Martín, Alejandro Velázquez-Tello, Elia Organista, Eduardo Mendez-Quintas, Marina Vegara‐Riquelme, Agness Gidna, Audax Z. P. Mabulla

Excavation of the 1.78 Ma Emiliano Aguirre Korongo site and landscape surveys across Olduvai Gorge Bed II reveal systematic early Pleistocene hominin butchery and percussive bone breakage of elephants.

eLife · Mar 18, 2026Peer-reviewedPaleontology✦ In-depth digest

Buca della Iena and Grotta del Capriolo: new chronological, lithic, and faunal analyses of two late Mousterian sites in Central Italy

Jacopo Gennai, Thomas Higham, Marco Romboni, Angelica Fiorillo, Maddalena Giannì, Laura van der Sluis, Damiano Marchi, Elisabetta Starnini

Radiocarbon dates place late Mousterian use of two northwestern Tuscan caves within 50-40 ka cal BP, with Buca della Iena occupied from about 47 to 42.5 ka cal BP.

PLoS ONE · Jun 11, 2025Peer-reviewedPaleontology✦ In-depth digest

Demographic responses to climatic changes during the Final Palaeolithic in Europe

Isabell Schmidt, Birgit Gehlen, Katja Winkler, Álvaro Arrizabalaga Valbuena, Nico Arts, Nuno Bicho, Philippe Crombé, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Sonja B. Grimm, Katarína Kapustka, Mathieu Langlais, Ludovic Mevel, Nicolas Naudinot, Zdeňka Nerudová, Marcel J. L. Th. Niekus, , Andreas Maier

Cologne Protocol estimates from 1788 Final Palaeolithic sites show Europe's hunter-gatherer population roughly halving from GI-1d-a to the Younger Dryas, with occupation shifting eastward.

PLoS ONE · Apr 2, 2025Peer-reviewedEcology✦ In-depth digest