Special Issue: Hominin Cultural and Biological Extinctions
Dr. Alastair Key and Dr. John Rowan are calling for papers to his special issue on Hominin Cultural and Biological Extinctions. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 March 2026.
The topic of extinction in human evolution research has often been overlooked. From both a cultural and biological perspective, there are relatively few extinction topics with extended debate or hypotheses that have been subjected to formal analysis. This is a theoretically broad Special Issue, encompassing both new research and review articles covering hominin biological and cultural extinctions during the Plio-Pleistocene. It aims to cast this net widely, such that we would welcome contributions addressing extinction, extirpation, anagenesis, and compositional turnover events, where one or more distinct taxa and/or cultural phenomena are evidenced to end at a given spatiotemporal scale or markedly change into a later recognized phenotype/genotype/form/type. This Special Issue provides a ‘gear-shift’ moment for human evolution research, bringing questions concerning the extinctions of hominin taxa and the end of well-known cultural periods to the fore.
Guest Editors: Alastair Key and John Rowan (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK)
Submission deadline: 31st March 2026
Source and more information: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-extinction/announcements/call-for-papers/hominin-cultural-and-biological-extinctions
