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Mark Dingemanse

Wow, that only took 8 years: PLOS ONE to offer author proofs retractionwatch.com/2024/03/21 (cc @deevybee)

Their explanation (screenshot) is corporate speak for: so many authors had to request corrections for absolutely trivial errors our typesetters introduced that we now realise it is a good idea to let authors see what we made of their work before we formally publish it.

Anyway, better late than never!

(Here's the 2016 blog that prompted the first RW coverage: ideophone.org/why-plos-one-nee ) #plosone

We are moving toward adding this service to authors because the correction request volumes in recent years have tipped the balance to where we have decided to prioritize the resources and time needed for this step in order to preempt minor corrections and ensure readers get correct information at the time of publication.
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Cluster ROOTS

Were early societies dependent on climate? A new study published now in #PLOSONE shows connectivity between climate variability and societal changes in Central Europe 5500 to 3500 years ago: uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/25 For the study, the authors investigated developments in three regions of Central Europe on the basis of high data density and with high temporal resolution.
#archaeology #demography #climate #BronzeAge #Neolithic #CentralEurope

A topographic map of Central Europe with three shaded study regions: 1. the region around the Harz Mountains, 2. the area of the present-day Czech Republic and Austria, and 3. the northern foothills of the Alps.
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Jens Notroff

Original study:

T. Lenssen-Erz, Animal tracks and human #footprints in prehistoric #HunterGatherer rock art of the Doro! nawas mountains (#Namibia), analysed by present-day #indigenous #tracking experts,
#PLoSONE 18(9), 2023. 🔓

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journals.plos.orgAnimal tracks and human footprints in prehistoric hunter-gatherer rock art of the Doro! nawas mountains (Namibia), analysed by present-day indigenous tracking expertsNamibia is rich in hunter-gatherer rock art from the Later Stone Age (LSA); this is a tradition of which well-executed engravings of animal tracks in large numbers are characteristic. Research into rock art usually groups these motifs together with geometric signs; at best, therefore, it may provide summary lists of them. To date, the field has completely disregarded the fact that tracks and trackways are a rich medium of information for hunter-gatherers, alongside their deeper, culture-specific connotations. A recent research project, from which this article has emerged, has attempted to fill this research gap; it entailed indigenous tracking experts from the Kalahari analysing engraved animal tracks and human footprints in a rock art region in central Western Namibia, the Doro! nawas Mountains, which is the site of recently discovered rock art. The experts were able to define the species, sex, age group and exact leg of the specific animal or human depicted in more than 90% of the engravings they analysed (N = 513). Their work further demonstrates that the variety of fauna is much richer in engraved tracks than in depictions of animals in the same engraving tradition. The analyses reveal patterns that evidently arise from culturally determined preferences. The study represents further confirmation that indigenous knowledge, with its profound insights into a range of particular fields, has the capacity to considerably advance archaeological research.
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Jens Notroff

Original study:

J.-C. Marquet et al., The earliest unambiguous #Neanderthal #engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, #France, #PLOSONE 18(6), 2023. 🔓

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journals.plos.orgThe earliest unambiguous Neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, FranceHere we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation, the cave was completely sealed by cold-period sediments, which prevented access until its discovery in the 19th century and first excavation in the early 20th century. The timing of the closure of the cave is based on 50 optically stimulated luminescence ages derived from sediment collected inside and from around the cave. The anthropogenic origin of the spatially-structured, non-figurative marks found within the cave is confirmed using taphonomic, traceological and experimental evidence. Cave closure occurred significantly before the regional arrival of H. sapiens, and all artefacts from within the cave are typical Mousterian lithics; in Western Europe these are uniquely attributed to H. neanderthalensis. We conclude that the LRC engravings are unambiguous examples of Neanderthal abstract design.
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