This paper discusses Carmine Di Martino’s last work Viventi umani e non umani. Tecnica, linguaggio e memoria (Edizioni Libreria Cortina, Milano 2017, pp. 204). The book deals with two main questions, i.e. the anthropogenesis and the comparison between human and non-hum...

The technique of "replicas" is a process available to paleontological research. Method of interpretation of human remains, it studies the stability or the changes of the structure of the dental crowns and the impression left by the use of the teeth. This new method has ...

Archaeological excavations carried out in the Moscow Kremlin in 2016–2017 revealed totally new archaeological data on centuries-long history of the capital city center. The value added of the palaeoanthropological source is independent information and provides a unique ...

The aim of this essay is to reflect upon what makes us human, taking into account two key concepts: hominization and humanization. In the process of human uniqueness and its evolutionary substrate, hominization and humanization are two sides of the same coin. Without ho...

International audience; The speech abilities of fossil hominins are one of the oldest and most challenging questions in palaeoanthropology. The theory of « laryngeal descent » has long been used to explain human singularity. However, recent work has shown that some non-...

We argue that the phenomenological or ‘agnostic’ approach to evolutionary systems advocated by Thomas Henry Huxley is applicable in anthropological archaeology and show how agnosticism helps defuse the tension between humanists, natural philosophers and natural historia...

本稿では，旧人・新人交替現象の時空間パターンを気候変動と関連づけてモデル化するための学際的手法の開発にかかる共同研究の進捗状況を報告する。この研究目標の達成に向けて，筆者らは2012年5月に考古学的予測モデリングの理論・方法・運用をテーマとするワークショップと講演を催した。集中的な議論の結果，人類のニッチ分布を広域スケールで推定する際には，各々の環境変数がどれほどモデルに寄与しているか評価することが重要であるという理解に至った。その後の最大エントロピーモデルMaxEntを用いた計算実験により，モデルに（1）対象遺跡の年代測定値の統計的...

“Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history”: this was the single line that Charles Darwin devoted to human evolution in the Origin of Species (1859). At present, there is a number of extinct species, which we understand to be related to human evolution, ...

<jats:p>Situs Gunung Wingko merupakan situs hunian pantai. Situs seperti ini juga ditemukan di luar Jawa, seperti di Gilimanuk (Bali), Gunung Piring (Lombok) dan Melolo (Sumba) (Nitihaminoto , 1982) . Pendukung kebudayaan Gunung Wingko tinggal tidak jauh dari pantai, ya...

The article offers a historical, archaeological and anthropological analysis of the earliest group of burials from the Vkhodoierusalimskii necropolis in Tsarevokokshaisk. These are burials with grave goods, which are defi ned by the archaeologists as burials of the Chri...