European Neandertals and their Upper Paleolithic modern human successors differ substantially in various proportions of their bodies. As compared to Neandertals, Upper Paleolithic Europeans tend to have longer limbs, both absolutely and relative to estimated skeletal trunk height; narrower bi-iliac breadths, both absolutely and relative to femur length; and higher brachial and crural indices.1–...

This article presents the results of a comparative study personal ornaments from Xiaogushan Cave in interregional and regional context formation modern behavior. is Paleolithic Neolithic site Northeast China. In Upper layers site, apart tools, were found— pendants made animal teeth, decorated bone disc. The date matter debate; 2 3 to ~30 ka BP. Like other artifacts (harpoon, needles, point), to...

In Africa and western Eurasia, occurrences of burials and utilized ocher fragments during the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene are often considered evidence for the emergence of symbolically-mediated behavior. Perhaps less controversial for the study of human cognitive evolution are finds of marine shell beads and complex designs on organic and mineral artifacts in early modern human (EMH...

Abstract Endscrapers are specialized tools that usually recovered in great quantities every Upper Paleolithic site Europe. Although they make their first ephemeral appearance the Middle–late Middle transitional technocomplexes, endscrapers commonly appear toolkits from initial and early traditions onwards. Nevertheless, and, general, domestic have attracted relatively little attention debates r...

Sonqor Koliyaie is a mountainous plain in central Zagros that has attracted the attention of human societies because of its appropriate environmental characteristics from long ago. Generally, the findings obtained from systematic archaeological surveys show that human settlements have been established in this area from Middle Paleolithic period through contemporary period. Three seasons of surv...

(1) BACKGROUND: The Paleolithic diet is popular in Australia, however, limited literature surrounds the dietary pattern. Our primary aim was to compare the Paleolithic diet with the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE) in terms of anthropometric, metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors, with a secondary aim to examine the macro and micronutrient composition of both dietary patterns; (2) ...