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17.1.2024
Our latest newsletter is now available online.
We report on PlantBITES, a database of plants that were useful to early humans. Next, we explore the remains of a prepared meal from Shanidar Cave in Iraq, which tells us a story about the interaction of Neanderthals with their environment. We describe how the recent discovery of an additional piece of an ivory figurine — which excavators found years ago in Hohle Fels — led to a completely different interpretation. Finally, we present the work of the ROCEEH team about the ROAD database, recently published in the international journal PLOS ONE, and provide a summary of the international conference „Ritual in Human Evolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives“, which took place in Tübingen in October, 2023.
New Publications
2.6.2024
Schürch, B., Wong, G.L., Luzi, E. & Conard, N.J. (2024): Evidence for an earlier Magdalenian presence in the Lone Valley of southwest Germany. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 104632. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104632, press release.
18.6.2024
Haidle, M.N. (2024): Die Welt neu begreifen. Werkzeuge als Schlüssel zu alten und neuen Räumen. In Berresheim, Tim (ed.), Neue Alte Welt 2002-2024. Bad Aachen, Studios New Amerika, 10-38.
6.6.2024
Puspaningrum, M.R., Anwar, I.P., Hertler, C., Hölzchen, E., Krüger, S., Hascaryo, A.T., Reschke, J.-O., & Bruch, A.A. (2024): Living in Sangiran: A Spatial Reconstruction of Hominin Environment in Java at 1 Ma. Earth History and Biodiversity, 2024, 100001, ISSN 2950-4759: DOI: 10.1016/j.hisbio.2024.100001.
4.6.2024
Rey Rodríguez, I., Gamarra, B., Arnaud, J., Golovanov, S., Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Wilkinson, K.N., Adler, D.S. & Weissbrod, L. (2024): Climatic variability in the Armenian Highlands as the backdrop to hominin population dynamics 50–25 ka. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 648(1): 112285. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112285.
29.5.2024
Koehler, H., Conard, N.J., Floss, H. & Lamotte, A. (2024). The Rhine During the Middle Paleolithic: Boundary or Corridor? Tübingen: Kerns Verlag. DOI: 10.51315/9783935751353.
Kitagawa, K., Münzel, S.C., Starkovich, B., Toniato, G., Krönneck, P., & Conard, N.C. (2024). The Fauna from the Middle Paleolithic: Settlement, Dietary Patterns and Technology in the Swabian Jura. In: Koehler, H., Conard, N.J., Floss, H., Lamotte, A. (eds.). The Rhine During the Middle Paleolithic: Boundary or Corridor?, pp. 67–95. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-935751-35-3. DOI: 10.51315/9783935751353.004.
28.5.2024
Will, M., Blessing, M., Möller, G. H. D., Msimanga, L., Pehnert, H., Riedesel, S., Botha, G. A., & Sommer, C. (2024). The Jojosi Dongas: An interdisciplinary project to study the evolution of human behaviour and landscapes in open-air contexts. Southern African Field Archaeology, 19. DOI: 10.36615/safa.19.3010.2024.
16.4.2024
Haidle, M.N. (2024): Ein Löwe ist ein Löwe ist ein Löwe? Intersubjektivität und die Interpretation figürlicher Darstellungen aus der Altsteinzeit. In: Schlette, Magnus, Christian Tewes (eds.): In Kontakt mit der Wirklichkeit: Die Perspektivität verkörperter Wahrnehmung. Berlin, De Gruyter, 257-276.DOI: 10.1515/9783111338453-014.
Nichols, R., Buskell, A., Charbonneau, M., Chellappoo, A., Davis, T., Haidle, M.N., Kimbrough, E.O., Moll, H., Moore, R., Scott-Philips, T., Purzycki, B.G. & Segovia-Martin, J. (2024): Philosophy of science for cultural evolution: a review of theoretical needs. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6: e12. DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2024.2.
11.4.2024
Antonosyan, M., Roberts, P., Aspaturyan, N., Mkrtchyan, S., Lucas, M., Boxleitner, K., Jabbour, F., Hovhannisyan, A., Cieślik, A., Sahakyan, L., Avagyan, A., Spengler, R., Kandel, A.W., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Yepiskoposyan, L. & Amano, N. (2024): Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 330, 108559. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108559.
Dutkiewicz, E., Wolf, S., Velliky, E. C., & Conard, N. J. (2024): Constructing identity. Body decoration and modification in the Swabian Aurignacian. In: Benjamin Collins & April Nowell (eds.), Culturing the Body: Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality. New York: Berghahn, 160-207. DOI: 10.1515/9781805394624-011.
Schürch, B. & Conard, N.J. (2024): Two low-density sites from the Lone Valley of SW-Germany and their implications for Middle Palaeolithic settlement dynamics. In: Thorsten Uthmeier & Andreas Maier (eds.): Stone Age. Studying technologies of non-analogous environments and glacial ecosystems. Papers in honour of Jürgen Richter. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt. DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2021.30003.
Bretzke, K., & Jasim, S. (2024): Filling in the gaps New evidence for Middle and Upper Palaeolithic occupations in the central region of Sharjah. Advances in UAE Archaeology. In: Zayed National Museum (ed.): Proceedings of Abu Dhabi's Archaeological Conference 2022. Oxford, Archaeopress, 41-50. link
Haidle, M.N. (2024): L‘homme de Néandertal était-il stupide? Cerveau & Psycho 163, mars 2024, 90-91.
Haidle, M.N. (2024): Waren Neandertaler wirklich dumm? Spektrum der Wissenschaft Geist und Gehirn 1/2024, 28-29. link
Yaworsky, P.M., Nielsen, E.S. & Nielsen, T.K. (2024): The Neanderthal niche space of Western Eurasia 145 ka to 30 ka ago. Scientific Reports 14, 7788. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-57490-4.
29.2.2024
Nichols, R., Charbonneau, M., Chellappoo, A., Davis, T., Haidle, M.N. et al.(2024): Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theoretical Challenges. Evolutionary Human Sciences. Published online 2024:1-59. DOI:10.1017/ehs.2024.2.
1.2.2024
Conard, N.J. & Rots, V. (2024): Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago. Science Advances 10 (5). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5217.
Events/Conferences/Workshops
Excavations
The next Paleolithic excavations in the Swabian Jura will take place from May to September 2024: For further information please click here.