Notícias de 20 a 26 de Junho de 2011

Early human fossils unearthed in Ukraine
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/06/early-human-fossils-unearthed-in.html

Do monkeys wonder?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wondermonkey/2011/06/do-monkeys-wonder-1.shtml

Magnetic Field Sensed by Gene, Study Shows
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/science/28magnet.html?_r=2

DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?cpid=124&func=subject

‘Brain surgery' during Harappan civilisation?
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/06/brain-surgery-during-harappan.html

Ancient skeletons discovered in Dublin
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.bhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giflogspot.com/2011/06/ancient-skeletons-discovered-in-dublin.html

Vídeo: BBC Horizon - Are We Still Evolving? (full version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbTaZcX3c94&feature=related

Metatarsal fusion pattern and developmental morphology of the Olduvai Hominid 8 foot: Evidence of adolescence

Randall L. Susman a, Biren A. Patel a, Megan J. Francis b and Hugo F.V. Cardoso c, d

a Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8081, USA
b Department of Health Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8200, USA
c Museu Nacional de História Natural & Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
d Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal


Abstract

The morphology of the Olduvai Hominid (OH) 8 foot and the sequence of metatarsal epiphyseal fusion in modern humans and chimpanzees support the hypothesis that OH 8 belonged to an individual of approximately the same relative age as the OH 7 subadult, the holotype of Homo habilis. Modern humans and chimpanzees exhibit a variety of metatarsal epiphyseal fusion patterns, including one identical to that observed in OH 8 in which metatarsal 1 fuses before metatarsals 2–5. More than the metatarsal fusion sequence, however, the principal evidence of the youthful age of OH 8 lies in the morphology of metatarsals 1, 2, and 3. Because both OH 8 and OH 7 come from the same stratum at the FLK NN type site, the most parsimonious explanation of the OH 8 and OH 7 data is that this material belonged to the same individual, as originally proposed by Louis Leakey. The proposition that OH 8 belonged to an adult is unsupported by morphology, including radiographic evidence, and the fusion sequences in human and chimpanzee skeletal material reported here and in the literature.

Keywords: Homo habilis; Hominin; Early Homo; Foot; Epiphysis; Metatarsal; OH 8

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJS-51FP621-2&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor&view=c&_searchStrId=1721009522&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=364a3c36f1db483bcc02dc01f27997eb&searchtype=a

Trabajos de Prehistoria Nuevo número publicado Vol 67, No 2 (2010).‏

http://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/issue/current

Journal of World Prehistory

Volume 1 / 1987 - Volume 23 / 2010

Chronology of the Grotte du Renne (France) and implications for the context of ornaments and human remains within the Châtelperronian

1. Thomas Higham^a,¹,
2. Roger Jacobi^b,^c,²,
3. Michèle Julien^d,
4. Francine David^d,
5. Laura Basell^a,
6. Rachel Wood^a,
7. William Davies^e, and
8. Christopher Bronk Ramsey^a

+ Author Affiliations

1. ^aOxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
2. ^bBritish Museum, Franks House, London N1 5QJ, United Kingdom;
3. ^cNatural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kindom;
4. ^dArchéologies et Sciences de L'Antiquité, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7041, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 92023 Nanterre, France; and
5. ^eCentre for the Archaeology of Human Origins, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF, United Kingdom

1. Edited by Richard G. Klein, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 13, 2010 (received for review June 12, 2010)

Abstract

There is extensive debate concerning the cognitive and behavioral adaptation of Neanderthals, especially in the period when the earliest anatomically modern humans dispersed into Western Europe, around 35,000–40,000 B.P. The site of the Grotte du Renne (at Arcy-sur-Cure) is of great importance because it provides the most persuasive evidence for behavioral complexity among Neanderthals. A range of ornaments and tools usually associated with modern human industries, such as the Aurignacian, were excavated from three of the Châtelperronian levels at the site, along with Neanderthal fossil remains (mainly teeth). This extremely rare occurrence has been taken to suggest that Neanderthals were the creators of these items. Whether Neanderthals independently achieved this level of behavioral complexity and whether this was culturally transmitted or mimicked via incoming modern humans has been contentious. At the heart of this discussion lies an assumption regarding the integrity of the excavated remains. One means of testing this is by radiocarbon dating; however, until recently, our ability to generate both accurate and precise results for this period has been compromised. A series of 31 accelerator mass spectrometry ultrafiltered dates on bones, antlers, artifacts, and teeth from six key archaeological levels shows an unexpected degree of variation. This suggests that some mixing of material may have occurred, which implies a more complex depositional history at the site and makes it difficult to be confident about the association of artifacts with human remains in the Châtelperronian levels.

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/47/20234.abstract?etoc

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volume 1 / 2008 - Volume 3 / 2010

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Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volume 1 / 2008 - Volume 3 / 2010

Primates

Volume 1 / 1957 - Volume 51 / 2010

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volume 142, Issue 4 Pages 509–675

Journal of Human Evolution

Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 1-154 (July 2010)

Animal cognition

Volume 1 / 1998 - Volume 13 / 2010

International Journal of Primatology

Volume 31, Number 3 / June, 2010

American Journal of primatology

Volume 72 Issue 7 (June 2010)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volume 142 Issue 2 (June 2010)

Open Anthropology Cooperative Press

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International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 31

Maintenance of Multifemale Social Organization in a Group of Nomascus concolor at Wuliang Mountain, Yunnan, China
Author(s): Peng-Fei Fan & Xue-Long Jiang> Page: 1 - 13> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9375-9> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgT6.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDBTGFQK0

Birth in Free-ranging Macaca fuscata
Author(s): Sarah E. Turner, Linda M. Fedigan, Masayuki Nakamichi, H. Damon Matthews, Katie McKenna, Hisami Nobuhara, Toshikazu Nobuhara & Keiko Shimizu> Page: 15 - 37> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9376-8> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgT8.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDBZaFQM0

The Function and Determinants of Reconciliation in Pan troglodytes
Author(s): Orlaith N. Fraser, Daniel Stahl & Filippo Aureli> Page: 39 - 57> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9377-7> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgTA.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDCXUFQV0

Sleeping Sites of Rhinopithecus brelichi at Yangaoping, Guizhou
Author(s): Zuo-Fu Xiang, Shuai-Guo Nie, Zong-Fei Chang, Fu-Wen Wei & Ming Li> Page: 59 - 71> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9378-6> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgTC.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDCeIFQX0

Vocal Diversity and Taxonomy of Nomascus in Central Vietnam and Southern Laos
Author(s): Julia C. Ruppell> Page: 73 - 94> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9384-8> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgTE.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDDEcFQZ0

Vigilance in a Cooperatively Breeding Primate
Author(s): Mojca Stojan-Dolar & Eckhard W. Heymann> Page: 95 - 116> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9385-7> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgTG.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDDLQFQb0

Dispersal Patterns in Tarsius spectrum
Author(s): Sharon Gursky> Page: 117 - 131> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9386-6> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgTI.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDDSEFQd0

The Development of Primate Raiding: Implications for Management and Conservation
Author(s): Shirley C. Strum> Page: 133 - 156> DOI: 10.1007/s10764-009-9387-5> URL: http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1j1ggF.BzR6sM..T.JgTK.3KVi.bW89MQ%5f%5fDDYYFQf0

PaleoAnthropology Society Journal

Volume 2010
(acesso gratuito aos artigos)

Provenience Reassessment of the 1931-1933 Ngandong Homo erectus (Java), Confirmation of the Bone-Bed Origin Reported by the Discoverers.Pages 1-60O. Frank Huffman, John de Vos, Aart W. Berkhout, and Fachroel Aziz

Letters
An Evaluation That Misses the Mark.Pages L0001-L0002Harvey M. Bricker

Reviews
Camps, M. and C.Szmidt (eds.) -- The Mediterranean From 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions.Pages 61-63Metin I. Eren

Petraglia, M.D. and B. Allchin (eds.) -- The Evolution and History of Populations in South Asia: Inter-Disciplinary Studies in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Genetics.Pages 64-71Parth R. Chauhan

Schmalzer, S. -- The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China.Pages 72-73Jennie JH Jin

Doelman, T. -- Time to Quarry: The Archaeology of Stone Procurement in Northwestern New South Wales, Australia.Pages 74-75Katie M. Biittner

Holmes, K. -- GIS Simulation of the Earliest Hominind Colonisation of Eurasia.Pages 76-78Isabelle Winder

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