Vladislav Zhitenev

Experience in use-wear analysis of burins and burin spalls from the Northwestern section of the Kamennaya Balka II Upper Palaeolithic site Rossijskaâ arheologiâ No 2 (2025)

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Sky blue – for the first time discovered the fourth color in the Paleolithic parietal Kapova cave.
The unknown earlier bright color of Paleolithic artists in Kapova cave (the Southern Urals, Russia).
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An Upper Second Molar from Akhshtyrskaya Cave and Population Affinities of the Middle Paleolithic Hominins of the Caucasus

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Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland

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Screengrab of Figure 4, showing original photograph of remains of Shanidar 6 in-situ, lying on LH side.

Screengrab of Figure 6, showing archive drawing of Shanidar 6 in-situ.

Screengrab of Figure 12, a schematic section of part of Shanidar site showing the vertical and horiztonal relationships of the sediment areas containing remains of at least 4 and potentially more Neanderthals.

🏺🦣🗃️ Great to see this out from Emma Pomeroy & wider team, continuing to piece together the Shanidar jigsaw: its site archive, and complex spatial relationships of skeletal remains.
Currently best evidence for sustained deposition of #Neanderthal bodies we have.

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Sorprendentemente hay pocos hogares detalladamente descritos del Último Máximo Glacial en Europa. Aquí van los de Korman' 9 (Ucrania).
Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine

On the Mousterian origin of bone-tipped hunting weapons in Europe: Evidence from Mezmaiskaya Cave, North Caucasus (Russia)
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

La mandíbula de Penghu (Taiwan) ¡es denisovana! ¿Homo juluensis?
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Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago The Marine Isotope Stage 3 is a context of considerable climatic instability. Establishing the link between global climate changes and their impact on…

Aurignacian groups at Isturitz (France) adapted to a shifting environment upon their arrival in Western Europe ∼42,000 years ago www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025):
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In knots, archaeologists see evidence of cultural exchange, and perhaps the early sparks of cognition Knots have been a fixture for thousands of years. A recent database finds that many cultures share the same ones. Image credit: Shutterstock / UVgreen.

Wanna read a digest of a fun anthro thing I've been up to lately? Our recent work on knots present and past has just been covered in @pnas.org Journal Club www.pnas.org/post/journal...

Interesting thoughts from Chris regarding ancient population structure in Africa. Regarding how these populations might have remained separate for a million years or more, it's worth bearing in mind the following:

Firstly, our results don't necessarily imply complete separation ...

And stomach contents too…https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379113003399

Cultural evolution, social ratcheting and the evolution of human division of labour | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences While ecological specialization, social differentiation and division of labour are found in many species, extensive and irreversible interdependence among culturally specialized producers is a characteristic feature of humans. By extending the concept of ...

Cultural evolution, social ratcheting and the evolution of human division of labour | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.

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Early Humans Thrived in Rainforests (Gift Article) The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa.

Meanwhile, 150,000 years ago: hunter-gatherers thrived in rain forests, once considered too harsh for early Homo sapiens to survive. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/3EThoDL 🧪

Revisiting palaeolithic rock art. Reading the graphic overlapping in terms of reuse behaviours in the Frieze of the Hands from the El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain) The study of figures overlapping in Palaeolithic rock art has been approached by the scientific discipline fundamentally from two perspectives. The fi…

Revisiting palaeolithic rock art. Reading the graphic overlapping in terms of reuse behaviours in the Frieze of the Hands from the El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain)

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A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life Humans—and analogous life beyond Earth—may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary coevolution.

A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Stone disc production at Pincevent (France) reveals versatile uses of colouring materials in the Late Magdalenian Level IV0 at Pincevent, dating from the Late Magdalenian (15-14 ka cal BP), has revealed a singular assemblage of more than 400 artefacts in colouring…

Stone disc production at Pincevent (France) reveals versatile uses of colouring materials in the Late Magdalenian www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A circular phylogenetic tree displaying the protein annotation patterns across 160 Anatidae (waterfowl) genomes. The tree branches radiate from the center, with each tip representing a different species. The outer ring consists of colored dots representing 13 different proteins, with black dots indicating >70% complete sequences, pink dots showing <70% complete sequences, and white dots showing no annotation. The samples are grouped and colored by genus, with major genera like Aythya, Spatula, Mergus, Chloephaga, Tadorna, and MelanitaSomateria labeled. Below the tree, a legend shows sequence counts and mean coverage percentages for each protein, ranging from 81-168 sequences and 79.9%-99.9% coverage. A node score legend indicates bootstrap support values using different shades of grey."

An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past.

Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
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Homo juluensis, Homo longi y denisovanos Si me pidieran destacar un solo avance en paleoantropología en la última década, me quedaría con los hallazgos relacionados con la evolución humana en Asia. En concreto, el progreso en el estudio d…

Homo juluensis, Homo longi y denisovanos 💀
🚨#nuevo en #NutcrackerMan wp.me/p4Bi9E-40r

A First Look at the Gravettian Open-Air Site Ollersdorf-Heidenberg (Austria): Recent Fieldwork and First Results on Stratigraphy, Chronology, Organic Preservation and Combustion Activity - Journal of ... The Middle Danube region is a key area for understanding Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer behaviours in a climatic context due to its long loess–palaeosol sequences and rich archaeological record sp...

The Middle Danube region is a key area for understanding Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer behaviours in a climatic context ... new approaches focusing on high-resolution studies ... have shown great new insights in human behaviour ...

New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - New insights of cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland

Excited to share our new paper on human cannibalism during the Magdalenian period! 🏚️💀 Featuring new insights from Maszycka Cave (Poland). #Archaeology #Prehistory #Anthropology @palmirasaladie.bsky.social @whiterabbit36.bsky.social Available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda The uptake of sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) in archaeology appears to be rather behind that in areas such as palaeoecology, palaeolimnology and Qu…

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Tracing the transfers of raw materials in the Gravettian of Moravia and Silesia In order to reconstruct the procurement pattern of lithics in the Moravian/Silesian Gravettian culture and to make a comparison with neighbouring area…

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Region-wide records of early human occupation from the loess of Central Asia. Includes records of burning during interglacials and stone artefacts. Could there be deliberate landscape burns in the Middle Pleistocene? It's been considered for northern Europe.
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'results..suggesting..hyperlocal adaptation of the..last Neanderthals...followed by dense occupations..and shifting mobility strategies within a large territory associated with the overlying Proto-Aurignacian assemblages lasting through climatic instability' paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...

Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. By reinterpreting previous excavations and conducting ne...

Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

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Ancient human genomes offer clues about the earliest migrations out of Africa Oldest Homo sapiens genomes point to dates of mixture with Neanderthals.

Ancient human genomes offer clues about the earliest migrations out of Africa [intro only] www.nature.com/articles/d41...