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Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany (2024)
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Robitaille, J., Meyering, L.-E., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Pettitt, P., Jöris, O., & Kentridge, R. (2024). Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany. PLoS ONE, 19(11), Article e0311302. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311302

The ~15,800 year-old Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, in Germany, has produced 406 engraved schist plaquettes which have been extensively studied in the past. The introduction of advanced imaging technologies, notably Reflectance Transformation Imagi... Read More about Upper Palaeolithic fishing techniques: Insights from the engraved plaquettes of the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, Germany.

A newly-discovered stone pendant from the Upper Palaeolithic of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Romania) and its wider context (2024)
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Cârciumaru, M., Nițu, E.-C., Otte, M., Pettitt, P., Cîrstina, O., Leu, M., Lupu, F.-I., & Ghiță, H. (2024). A newly-discovered stone pendant from the Upper Palaeolithic of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Romania) and its wider context. L'Anthropologie, 128(4), Article 103282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2024.103282

In 2022, a stone pendant was recovered from the Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian I) level of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț, Romania. Dating to ∼24,096-22992 cal. BP, it is made on an oval-shaped quartz/quartzite pebble of 29 mm maximum dimensions. It b... Read More about A newly-discovered stone pendant from the Upper Palaeolithic of Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț (Romania) and its wider context.

What we know and do not know after the first decade of Homo naledi. (2024)
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Pettitt, P., & Wood, B. (online). What we know and do not know after the first decade of Homo naledi. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02470-0

It has been just over 10 years since the first fossils attributed to Homo naledi were recovered from the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind. The hominin fossil evidence for H. naledi displays a distinctive combination of pr... Read More about What we know and do not know after the first decade of Homo naledi..