Recent Additions - May 1, 2005

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Recent Additions

Human Palaeontology:
-The Homo floresiensis affair: Takeu strikes back?
-Kent's Cavern 4: chronology and taxonomy questioned???
-Homo sapiens idaltu
-On “Atapuercan” connections: Homo antecessor and Homo sapiens.
-Homo floresiensis 'unquestionably pathological'
-Sahelanthropus: New finds & cranial reconstruction
-News from Dmanisi (April 2005)
-Paleoindian cranial anomalies
-Flores again: a mandibular question.
-Neves & al. and the Capelinha skull.
-Making the most of tsunamis: a palaeoanthropological, “deus ex machina” angle.
-Mini Human Species Unearthed
-Homo floresiensis: the thickening of the plot.
-Neves & al., on the significance of the Lagoa Santa human remains.
-Omo skulls redated
-Neanderthal Cranial Analysis
-Mexico to the (palaeoanthropological) rescue

Human Evolutionary Biology:
-Nutrition in human evoltion
-Jablonski on evolution of skin color
-Oreopithecus bambolii
-Origin of bipedalism
-Cultural evolutionary pressures on dentition

Molecular Anthropology:
-Mutational hotspots and/or mitochondrial recombination?
-On “Genography” and global biomolecular dreams ...
-About “deep time” non-African DNA signals.
-The poop on DNA (or vice versa)
-On Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens osteocalcin protein.
-Neanderthal mtDNA retrieved from El Sidron (Spain)
-A New World palaeolinguistic-mtDNA confrontation.
-DNA studies: Two recent, pertinent reviews
-Where is the “prehistory”?

Prehistory:
-Lincombian chronology and Kent's Cavern
-Yafteh Cave (Baradostian EUP), Iran reopened
-Evidence for hafting at Sibudu Cave
-Stones and Late Pliocene forethought at Lokalalei 2C (Kenya).
-Hunting
-Neanderthals done in by (lack of) free trade
-Late Pleistocene culturally modified mammoth bones from Kansas
-Paul Mellars' recent position paper.
-Yana RHS-30KYR Siberian arctic habitation
-Jiri Svoboda on “Neanderthal extinction”
-A case of cheesy palaeoanthropology from Flores?
-Toba

Ethnoarchaeology & Palaeoethnology:  

Palaeoenvironmental studies:
-Yana and its palaeoecological "attractors".
-Increasing the palaeoclimatic/environmental resolution at Zhoukoudian

Faunal studies and Taphonomy:
-Burned bones from Sibudu.

Geology and Geomorphology:  

Archaeometry & Chronostratigraphy:
-Chronometric validation of the Church Hole (Creswell Crags) engravings
-A Russian-Siberian perspective on the chronology of the MP-UP transition & more.
-The “Protsch von Zieten” affair.
-On “Calibration” -- An important issue from RADIOCARBON
-Quartz hydration dating.

Parietal & Mobiliary Art:
-The Shaft of the Dead Man: new interpretation
-Jean Clottes on Rock Art
-Bhimbetka paintings over 25,000 yrs old
-Palaeolithic Art: a humble approach.
-Palaeolithic Gods ???
-Early African art and population
-CRESWELL ART -- An announcemen

Palaeolinguistics:
-Tartaria neolithic tablet decyphering
-Tartaria decyph.

Miscellaneous:
-In Memoriam: Ernst Mayr (1904 - 2005)

Bookyard:
-Global Perspectives on Microlithization
-PALEO N° 16 (2004)
-On the growth of the archaeological record -- Southwest France.
-A new Encyclopedia of prehistory.
-CR Palevol - Current Issue
-SPRING(er) special ?
-Journal of Archaeological Science - March 2005 issue
-2005 AAPA meeting & abstracts
-Current Anthropology -- Vol. 46, No.1, 2005
-Jean-Jacques Hublin -- a few free papers.
-The Hunting Apes
-All you wanted to know about Lagar Velho.
-Quaternary International & Quaternary Science Reviews: "articles in press"
-Mammoths in Rotterdam, 1999.
-The Human Nature Review - Worth searching through and monitoring …
-John Hawks on Klein & Edgar's "The Dawn of Human Culture"
-Monitoring the Oxford University Ancient Biomolecules Lab

Links:
-BLOMBOS CAVE PROJECT: an updated web site.
-From Tools to Symbols, in South Africa.
-PALEOANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY -- 2005 meeting program
-Good "GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL" news from Tübingen
-Neanderthals Revisited in January 2005.
-On the Hugo Obermaier Gesellschaft 45th Annual Congress
-A Wolpoff Reader.
-Bertrand Mafart's Web site
-John Hawks' "weblog": much more than just "molecular" anthropology

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