Hohle Fels – A UNESCO Global Geopark Geosite within a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Protection and Cooperation by Conny Meister, Iris Bohnacker, Guido Bataille

“…The Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura is a key site of the Central European late Middle and early Upper Paleolithic. The Aurignacian deposits with more than 90,000 lithic artifacts, numerous faunal remains as well as the presence of flutes, beads and mobile art objects, give an exceptional insight into the material culture between 42,000 and 35,000 years B.P. …”
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Sur la biométrie des mandibules et des dents humaines d’Ishango (LSA, République démocratique du Congo) by Rosine Orban, Patrick Semal, François Twiesselmann

“…Taking into account the reduction of teeth and maxillaries since the australopithecines until Homo sapiens sapiens, bivariate analyses have led to the following observations: the mandibles D and a tend to be located among the higher values of the modern variation; some of their measurements (a.o. those of the ascending ramus) are close to those from the fossils of the Upper Paleolithic of Europe, of Fish Hoek, and of Gamble Cave; the Ishango a mandible is more robust than the D mandible; its molars are larger, in relative terms, than the other teeth of the toothrow; the M2 from Ishango A and a are located within the variability of the Plio-Pleistocene fossils from Africa and of the Homo erectus; the large dimensions of the M1 dental germ locate it among the Australopithecines. …”
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Sillons d’usure interproximaux : reproduction expérimentale, analyse et application des résultats aux observations sur la lignée néandertalienne by Linda Bouchneb, Bruno Maureille

“…However there is an exception: the flexible material produced marks that we have never seen on Paleolithic fossils. The use of mineral particles appears to increase the speed of wear and to produce deeper scratches.With these experimental results we discuss the interproximal wear grooves observed on teeth of members of Neanderthal lineage. …”
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The role of Beringia in human adaptation to Arctic conditions based on results of genomic studies of modern and ancient populations by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…The results of a paleogenomic analysis also show that during the last glacial maximum Beringia was populated by human groups that had arisen as a result of interaction between the most ancient Upper Paleolithic populations of Northern Eurasia and newcomer groups from East Asia. …”
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A local meteoric water line for interior Alaska constrains paleoclimate from 40 000 year old relict permafrost by Thomas A Douglas, Amanda J Barker, Alistair J Monteath, Duane G Froese

“…Older samples provide insight into local climatic conditions slightly before the first archeological evidence for Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in the region. From permafrost ice we calculate that summer temperatures warmed by ∼10 °C between late MIS3 and today, with six degrees of warming between 40–30 ka and 3 ka and an additional 4 °C of warming since 3 ka. …”
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Vestiges humains des niveaux de l’Aurignacien ancien du site de Brassempouy (Landes) by Dominique Henry-Gambier, Bruno Maureille, Randall White

“…The analysis of these remains, especially the isolated teeth, shows that they fall within the range of variation, not only of anatomically modern humans of the Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic and the European Gravettian, but also of the few known European Aurignacians and of the Wurm II Neandertals. …”
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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago by Sabrina C. Curran, Virgil Drăgușin, Briana Pobiner, Michael Pante, John Hellstrom, Jon Woodhead, Roman Croitor, Adrian Doboș, Samantha E. Gogol, Vasile Ersek, Trevor L. Keevil, Alexandru Petculescu, Aurelian Popescu, Chris Robinson, Lars Werdelin, Claire E. Terhune

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SEAHORS: Spatial Exploration of ArcHaeological Objects in R Shiny by Royer, Aurélien, Discamps, Emmanuel, Plutniak, Sébastien, Thomas, Marc

“…We present an overview of the application’s functions by using the case study of the Cassenade Paleolithic site (France). …”
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Considérations ontogénétiques et phylogénétiques concernant l’origine de la parole by Louis-Jean Boë, Jean Granat, Jean-Louis Heim, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Badin, Guillaume Barbier, Guillaume Captier, Antoine Serrurier, Nicolas Kielwasser

“…We analyzed 31 skulls from now to 1.5 Ma (millions years) BP (Before Present) for fossil hominids available at the Muséedel’Homme in Paris or in the literature: (1) 10-30 ka BP: modern humans: Paleolithic; (2) 90-200 ka BP: anatomically modern humans; (3) 45-90 ka BP: Neanderthals; (4) 1.5 Ma BP: Homoergaster; These skulls are all well kept and possess a jaw in the majority of cases but the vertebral column has been reconstituted. …”
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