A high level of encephalization is critical to the human adaptive niche and emerged among
hominins over the course of the past 2 Myr. Evolving larger brains required important�…

This book is entirely devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and
forensic contexts. It provides an extensive review of the osteological methods and theoretical�…

Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional
needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage�…

Early-life dietary transitions reflect fundamental aspects of primate evolution and are
important determinants of health in contemporary human populations,. Weaning is critical to�…

The remains of 12 Neandertal individuals have been found at the El Sidr�n site (Asturias,
Spain), consisting of six adults, three adolescents, two juveniles, and one infant�…

Increased longevity, expressed as number of individuals surviving to older adulthood,
represents one of the ways the human life history pattern differs from other primates. We�…

Isotope and archeological analyses of Paleolithic food webs have suggested that
Neandertal subsistence relied mainly on the consumption of large herbivores. This�…

The early onset of weaning in modern humans has been linked to the high nutritional
demand of brain development that is intimately connected with infant physiology and growth�…

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of�…

Footprints represent a unique snapshot of hominin life. They provide information on the size
and composition of groups that differs from osteological and archeological remains, whose�…