Volume 87 (2009)

Cover story

The life histories of fossil hominins

In recent years a number of research projects concerning the evolutionary history of South African Plio-Pleistocene Hominins have been devoted to the reconstruction of specific aspects of the biology of these species. The increased number of fossil remains recovered and the use of new methods and new technological analyses have made it possible to extract a relevant amount of new information which until recently was completely unknown. One example of this, for instance, regards the lifestyle, the diet and the ecology of these fossil species...

The Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) is the official publication of the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA). It is the continuation of the Atti della Societa' Romana di Antropologia (from 1893 to 1910) and Rivista di Antropologia (until 2003).

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