Baruch Arensburg

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported that ther-moluminescence dates from 38 specimens of burnt flint recovered from 4 m of Kebara deposits range from about 60,000 to 48,000 years before present (BP), indicating that Neanderthals were present in the Levant in the latter part of the middle Palaeolithic.

TL;DR: The discovery of a well-preserved human hyoid bone from Middle Palaeolithic layers of Kebara Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel, dating from about 60,000 years BP concludes that the morphological basis for human speech capability appears to have been fully developed during the MiddlePalaeolithic.

TL;DR: This work critiques the use of the basicranium and instead presents the anatomical relations of the hyoid and adjacent structures in living humans as a basis for understanding the form of the vocal tract.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that relatively well preserved DNA is occluded within clusters of intergrown bone crystals that are resistant to disaggregation by the strong oxidant NaOCl, which demonstrates the presence of a privileged niche within fossil bone, which contains DNA in a better state of preservation than the DNA present in the total bone.

TL;DR: This study indicates that the edentulous arch and the residual ridge take many forms, and to accommodate an entire metal osseointegrated implant within the residual bone volume, crest reduction and bone grafts may be required as preprosthetic surgical measures.