Browsing Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR by Author "Vanhaeren, Marian"
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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 ...