Keep it in your own Backyard: New Experimental Perspectives on Domestic Iron Age Lithic Industries in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

Both knapped and polished lithic industries have traditionally been given great regard within the archaeological studies of northwestern Iberian Peninsula, mostly focusing on their typologies and the materials used.However, this has not been the case with other stone objects, such as rolling stones, that tend to appear in certain prehistoric contex

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Paternity of subordinates raises cooperative effort in cichlids.

BackgroundIn cooperative breeders, subordinates generally help a dominant breeding pair to raise offspring.Parentage studies have shown that in several species subordinates can participate in reproduction.This suggests an important role of direct fitness benefits for cooperation, particularly where groups contain unrelated subordinates.In this situ

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