Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

The lithic assemblage of Barranco León (BL), attributed to the Oldowan techno-complex,
contributes valuable information to reconstruct behavioral patterning of the first hominins to …

An apparently unique part of the Earlier Stone Age record of Africa are a series of bone tools
dated to between∼ 2 and∼ 1 Ma from the sites of Olduvai in East Africa, and Swartkrans …

Bone tool-use by Early Pleistocene hominins is at the centre of debates in human evolution.
It is especially the case in South Africa, where 102 bone tools have been described from four …

The evolutionary history of hominins and archaeological assemblages has become
considerably more complex in the last twenty-five years due to the contribution of innovative …

The identification of the Taung Child Australopithecus africanus type specimen as an early
human fossil (hominin) by Raymond Dart in 1924, followed by key discoveries at sites like …

Abstract Analysis of 124 rounded fossils, potential bone tools, from the 2.04–1.95 Ma early
hominin-bearing Drimolen Main Quarry palaeocave deposits in South Africa were subject to …

We develop a framework to differentiate the technological niches of co-existing hominin
species by reviewing some theoretical biases influential in thinking about techno-behaviours …

Abstract The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site in South Africa is renowned for its
karstic cave systems, which have yielded extensive fossil and stone tool assemblages …

Raw material selection and transport behaviors are important constraints on Oldowan lithic
production strategies. While patterns in toolstone preference at Oldowan sites suggest that …