[HTML][HTML] Climate frameworks for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa

S Boisard, CD Wren, L Timbrell, A Burke - Quaternary International, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper examines climate conditions in Northwest Africa for Marine Isotope Stage 4, 3,
and 2 (71,000–11,000 years ago) and their impact on the distribution of potential suitable …

[HTML][HTML] Random forest models highlight early Homo sapiens habitats and their relationship to lithic assemblage composition

L Timbrell, J Blinkhorn, M Grove - Quaternary Environments and Humans, 2025 - Elsevier
Eastern Africa plays an enduring role in understanding the evolution of modern humans in
relation to palaeoenvironmental change. Numerous studies have implicated ecological and …

Climate seasonality and predictability during the Middle Stone Age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens

L Timbrell, J Clark, G Linares-Matás, S Boisard… - 2024 - pure.mpg.de
Regionalisation is considered to be a hallmark of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) compared to
the Early Stone Age. Yet what drove diversification around a shared technological substrate …