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New Publication: 'Luzon predators: Clues from a fossil with bite marks' by Meyrick U. Tablizo et al

March 5, 2024
New paper published in Annales de Paléontologie. The ancient predatory guild of Luzon (Philippines) remains obscure. A fragmentary deer tibia with bite marks from a Pleistocene paleochannel deposit in La Union Province opens the possibility of a Crocodile or another yet unknown predator as responsible agent.

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Revised curricula of MA/MS in Archaeology programs

February 2, 2024

The updated curricula added six (6) units to the existing programs with the inclusion of Archaeo 220 (Philippine Preshistoric Archaeology, 3 units) and Archaeo 260 (Archaeological Resource Management, 3 units) to the core courses. Aside from changing the program requirements, the curricular update also includes the institution of a new course and revision of existing courses.

A major course revision is the splitting of Archaeo 242 Archaeobiological Remains, which covers both botanical and faunal materials, into two: a renamed Archaeo 242, Archaeozoological Remains and a newly-...

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New Publication: 'Ardales & Palomas. Prehistoric Caves in Spain' edited by José Ramos Muñoz and Gerd-Christian Weniger

December 27, 2023

New book!

This work addresses the stratigraphic sequence of two prehistoric cavities with occupations from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, important for the understanding of human occupations from the Pleistocene and Holocene at the southern Iberian Peninsula. It is an interdisciplinary contribution with geological, stratigraphic studies, soil micromorphology, pollen, anthracology, terrestrial macrofauna and microfauna, marine fauna, archaeometry of lithic tools, analysis of lithic technology, ceramic studies, as well as prehistoric art. It is completed with numerous...

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New Publication: ‘Mixed ancestry of Europeans who settled Iceland and Greenland: 3D geometric-morphometric analyses of cranial base shape’ by Kimberly A. Plomp, Keith Dobney, Hildur Gestsdóttir and Mark Collard

October 19, 2023

Published in Antiquity, this paper reports that Greenlandic settlers during the early medieval period had a mix of British, Irish, and Scandinavian ancestries. This finding is based on 3D-shape analyses of human crania from Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland, and a Norse colony in Greenland.

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New Publication: 'Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)' by Diego Garate et al

October 18, 2023

Can small vertebrates tell us something about Palaeolithic rock art?

To know the answer, you have to read the contribution of Juan Rofes (Associate professor of UPSA) to this fantastic paper published in Scientific Reports, the “younger sibling” of Nature. Besides, you will learn about the complexity of the artistic production inside caves during the Upper Palaeolithic. There is...

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