Weaning a Neandertal
Last week, Nature published a paper by Christine Austin and colleagues, in which they developed a new approach to understand how breastfeeding affects the el...
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Putting together australopithecine diets
Peter Ungar and Matt Sponheimer earlier this fall Ungar:Sponheimer:2011 reviewed the evidence for diet in early hominins, from both microwear studies (Ungar’...
Finding the identity of animal (and plant) fats
Last week I made a note about some ongoing work at the Spanish site of El Salt, which suggested taxonomic identifications for burned traces of animal and pla...
Neandertals noshed on mammoth meat?
In an article in the Jul 2005 issue of Journal of Human Evolution, Hervé Bocherens and colleagues contribute new isotopic values for bone collagen fr...