Publications by authors named "K Harvati"
Objectives: The current research delves into the use of 3D geometric morphometric for assessing shifts in maturity within both the proximal and distal humeral metaphyses. It mainly focuses on establishing correlations between these shifts and the shape changes observed in the corresponding epiphyses established through radiographic imaging.
Material And Methods: The total sample comprises 120 right-side proximal humeral metaphyses and 91 right-side distal humeral metaphyses.
The evolution of the human hand is a topic of great interest in paleoanthropology. As the hand can be involved in a vast array of activities, knowledge regarding how it was used by early hominins can yield crucial information on the factors driving biocultural evolution. Previous research on early hominin hands focused on the overall bone shape.
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- Extensive archaeological research on Upper Paleolithic Europe is limited due to scarce fossil remains and poor molecular preservation.
- A large dataset of 450 dentitions from ~47 to 7 thousand years ago was analyzed to understand population dynamics better than previous skeletal and genetic data.
- The study identified a population turnover around ~28 ka and significant refugia during the Last Glacial Maximum, showcasing the innovative use of a machine learning approach for analyzing skeletal phenotypes, opening new avenues for future research.
The early Iron Age (800 to 450 BCE) in France, Germany and Switzerland, known as the 'West-Hallstattkreis', stands out as featuring the earliest evidence for supra-regional organization north of the Alps. Often referred to as 'early Celtic', suggesting tentative connections to later cultural phenomena, its societal and population structure remain enigmatic. Here we present genomic and isotope data from 31 individuals from this context in southern Germany, dating between 616 and 200 BCE.
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- Neanderthals were previously thought to live under constant stress in harsh conditions, which might have contributed to their extinction, but recent research disputes this view and calls for further exploration of stress in Paleolithic populations.
- This study investigates dental enamel hypoplasia, a sign of early life stress, through the largest sample analyzed from Neanderthals and Upper Paleolithic humans, using comprehensive Bayesian modeling to track growth disruptions.
- The findings show that while both groups experienced similar overall stress levels, Neanderthal children faced increased growth disruptions particularly during the weaning process, whereas Upper Paleolithic children had fewer disruptions post-weaning, suggesting possible differences in childcare and survival strategies between the two species.