Dating of Australian Prehistory

Linguistic prehistory of the Australian boab

Boabs, a close relation of the African baobabs, are found only in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and a region close by in the Northern Territory. Here several of the words for the boab tree and its parts are examined with special emphasis on loanwords which cross language family boundaries going in a west-east direction. It is proposed that this linguistic diffusion may reflect dispe...

Upper Paleolithic blues: consequences of recent dating fiasco on human evolutionary prehistory

Prehistory of Programming Languages

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The prehistory of compassion.

B eyond the biological traits that differentiate ancient species of hominins from extant humans, differences in social organization remain an important yet difficult issue to assess. Psychological features and interindividual relations, in particular, are among the least accessible aspects of past behaviors. Although the fossil and archaeological records do not easily allow us to tackle these k...

Experimental Methods of Antiquities Dating

Archaeological researches have been started as an interdisciplinary approach in the field of cultural heritage sciences (especially archaeology as an original field) for more than half a century. It has gathered together the researchers of different fields of human sciences, basic sciences, engineering and art according to their interests in archaeological findings and curiosity in solving huma...