Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Vanhaeren, Marian"
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Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
Baker, Jack; Rigaud, Solange; Vanhaeren, Marian; d'Errico, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed ... -
Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
Antunes, Nicolas; Schiefenhövel, W; d'Errico, Francesco; Banks, William E.; Vanhaeren, Marian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the ... -
Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: The marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa
Vanhaeren, Marian; Wadley, Lyn; d'Errico, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Located in the KwaZulu-Natal, 15 km from the coast, Sibudu has yielded twenty-three marine gastropods, nine of which are perforated. At 70.5 ± 2.0 ka, in a Still Bay Industry, there is a cluster of perforated Afrolittorina ... -
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation
d'Errico, Francesco; Pitarch Martí, Africa; Wei, Yi; Gao, Xing; Vanhaeren, Marian; Doyon, Luc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Personal ornaments have become a key cultural proxy to investigate cognitive evolution, modern human dispersal, and population dynamics. Here, we reassess personal ornaments found at Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and compare them ...