Palaeoanthropology: The earliest Sivapithecus?

Palaeoanthropology of the Italian Peninsula

The scientific activity of the group of researchers led by Mallegni concerns the biological characteristics of ancient human groups from the Mediterranean basin, from the most archaic forms to the protohistorical and historical ones. Of course, the questions posed by the most ancient groups are different from those arising from the other ones, and this largely due to the limited amount of mater...

Molar crown formation in the Late Miocene Asian hominoids, Sivapithecus parvada and Sivapithecus indicus.

During the past decade, studies of enamel development have provided a broad temporal and geographic perspective on evolutionary developmental biology in Miocene hominoids. Here we report some of the first data for molar crown development in one hominoid genus, Sivapithecus. The data are compared to a range of extant and extinct hominoids. Crown formation times (CFTs), daily rates of enamel secr...

New Directions in Palaeoanthropology

Anthropology, a specific subfield of ethology, because it deals specifically with our own species, tends to be characterized by a more emotional approach than is common in other ethological fields. This may explain why standard methods that are commonly used in ethology, such as comparative biology, are remarkably rare in anthropology and especially palaeoanthropology. Anthropologists tend to v...

The earliest knockouts.

The Earliest Matches

Cylindrical objects made usually of fired clay but sometimes of stone were found at the Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic sites of Sha'ar HaGolan and Munhata (first half of the 8(th) millennium BP) in the Jordan Valley. Similar objects have been reported from other Near Eastern Pottery Neolithic sites. Most scholars have interpreted them as cultic objects in the shape of phalli, while others have ref...