Notable: Mammoth hunters in the Arctic 45,000 years ago
Notable paper: Pitulko, V. V., Tikhonov, A. N., Pavlova, E. Y., Nikolskiy, P. A., Kuper, K. E., Polozov, R. N. 2016. Early human presence in the Arctic: Evid...
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The case of the Neandertal salmon
I’ve been doing a good amount of reading about Neandertal diets lately, and have some stuff to report. First, a recent paper by Hervé Bocherens, Gennady Bary...
Mailbag: Science coverage of Denisova news
Dear Dr. Hawks,
Neandertals of the North
Ludovic Slimak and colleagues this week argue that Byzovaya, a site in the Russian far north, was produced by Neandertals: “Late Mousterian Persistence near ...
An earlier initial Upper Paleolithic at Kostenki
A paper by Anikovich and colleagues in Science describes revisions to the Upper Paleolithic chronology of Kostenki, Russia.
The initial Upper Paleolithic at Kostenki
In one of those interesting twists of bibliographic fate, before today's announcement about the new dates for the initial Upper Paleolithic at Kostenki, I h...
King Kong humanzee trivia
I'm coming late to this story, but it's still timely! The New York Times has an op-ed by Clive Wynne linking the inspiration for the original King Kong to S...
Who colonized the European Arctic?
I happened across an article by Pavlov and colleagues (2001) about the Mamontovaya Kurya site in the Russian Arctic. From the abstract (64):