Journal of Human Evolution

Cartesian coordinates of 54 3D landmark data capturing the shape of the first, second, and final thoracic vertebrae and first and second lumbar vertebrae of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. Landmark data have been subjected to Generalized Procrustes analyses and asymmetry has been removed.

Rheology temperature and frequency sweeps, TGA, and Vickers hardness measurements of replica Paleolithic adhesives made of birch bark tar, pine resin, ochre, and beeswax. Full details can be found in the methods section of the paper "A new experimental methodology for assessing adhesive material properties shows that Neandertals used the most suitable material available".

Raw dental microwear texture data of modern African suid species and fossil suids from the eastern African Pliocene sites of Kanapoi and Hadar.

These are single limb forces during above and below branch quadrupedal locomotion

Data and representative code for analyses.

The sample comprises 363 cranial specimens (homologous three-dimensional [3D] landmark configurations representing the baboon craniofacial skeleton). The sample combines coordinate data obtained from two different sources: eight baboon skulls from Gorongosa National Park and a comparative sample of 355 baboon skulls from an earlier study conducted by Dunn et al. (2013). The eight baboon skulls from Gorongosa National Park were collected during the 2016 and 2017 fieldwork. The skulls were from naturally deceased and taphonomically-skeletonized individuals. The skulls were surface-scanned in three different views using a NextEngine Desktop 3D Scanner from NextEngine, Inc., operating with both laser and normal light. Each view was a 360º scan with 11 divisions. The geometric point resolution was set to 66 dots per inch (DPI). ScanStudio 2.0.2 software (NextEngine, Inc., 2006) was used to merge the view scans into a single-surface model. The surface models were imported into the Amira 5.5 software (Mercury Inc. USA). A set of 43 three-dimensional landmarks was digitized on each baboon craniofacial surface model. These 43 landmarks were selected from the configuration of landmarks used by Dunn et al. (2013). The comparative database corresponds to three hundred and fifty-five specimens with manually digitized coordinates from Dunn et al. (2013). In their database, specimens are grouped into one of the six commonly recognized species, with one subspecies identified for four individuals (P. ursinus griseipes). The database also included 318 geo-referenced specimens (274 geo-referenced specimens intersect with the 355 specimens labeled by species and sex). We subdivided P. cynocephalus into three subgroups by their geographic location: P. cynocephalus north (specimens located north of the Ruaha-Rufiji River in Central Tanzania; Zinner et al., 2015), P. cynocephalus south (specimens located south of the Ruaha-Rufiji River) and P. cynocephalus DRC (specimens located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, labeled as P. cynocephalus Zaire in the database from Dunn et al. 2013), which is included in the distribution area of Kinda baboons. Two specimens labeled as P. ursinus and one specimen labeled as P. cynocephalus had geographic coordinates locating their origin in Gorongosa. Therefore, the specimens were divided into 10 groups, taking into account the six-species scheme, the subspecies P. ursinus griseipes, the mtDNA paraphyly of P. cynocephalus (grouping yellow baboons according to geographic location), and considering Gorongosa as an independent group.

*.3dl files contain the coordinates list of 3D homologous semi-landmarks placed on each of the artifacts and used in the geometric morphometric shape analysis, as well as the high resolution 3D model data. To be opened with matlab or AGMT3D. *.jmp file contains the technological observations used in this study for each of the artifacts.

Season of harvest designations for Loftus et al. See Loftus, E., Sealy, J., Leng, M.J. and Lee-Thorp, J.A., 2017. A late Quaternary record of seasonal sea surface temperatures off southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 171, pp.73-84. for expanded dataset

Included are 1) three csv files, each of which is a species by member matrix with abundance data for either the Shungura, Koobi Fora, or Nachukui Formation, 2) another csv file with the geological ages of the members in each formation (for plotting purposes), 3) a Word document with the full bibliography for references cited in the member ages dataset, and 4) complete R code for running the analyses and making the figures in the manuscript.

NEXUS files for running the phylogenetic analyses on the two character matrixes (Ni et al 2016 and Tornow 2008).