“A are history defaced,” argued Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning; they are “...remnants of history which...escaped the shipwreck of time” (1). These remnants, battered by the elements and scattered around the globe, are all we have to piece together human heritage. In recent years, radiocarbon dating techniques (e.g., accelerator mass spectrometry) have allow...

Cannibalism in the Paleolithic and prehistoric periods in Europe has been a controversial subject in discussions. Widely accepted or fully denied, it has attracted the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for more than one hundred years. In this paper it will be shown that the human remains from the Krapina Neanderthal site have still a key position in current discussions on cannibal...

During the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Balkan, Italian and Iberian peninsulas of southern Europe, late Neanderthal early Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) populations may have overlapped some capacity. Many hypotheses models for interval suggest that remained in, or migrated to, refugial zones while AMHs colonized areas not suitable for, abandoned by, Neanderthals. However, many bee...