Neanderthal symbolism and ornament manufacture: The bursting of a bubble?

2010/11/15 by Paul Mellars · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1073/pnas.1014588107

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Abstract

Dimensionality reduction simplifies high-dimensional data into a small number of representative patterns. One dimensionality reduction method, principal component analysis (PCA), often selects oscillatory or U-shaped patterns, even when such ...Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction method that is known for being simple and easy to interpret. Principal components are often interpreted as low-dimensional patterns in high-dimensional space. However, this simple ...

Citations

• New dates for the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure and their implications for the evolution of symbolic behaviour.
• The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe
• A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

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• Neanderthal language revisited: not only us
• Arcy-sur-Cure [wikipedia]
• Grotta del Cavallo [wikipedia]

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