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...

Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ‘ages’ that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isola...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Database of hominin body size estimates in Excel format.

Database of Atapuerca hominins ordered by different selection criteria in Excel format.

“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...