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 …

From a climate perspective, the southern Cape of South Africa is a particularly dynamic
region because it occupies the transition between warm-temperate and subtropical …

This perspective draws on the record of ancient pathogen genomes and microbiomes
illuminating patterns of infectious disease over the course of the Holocene in order to …

The scarcity of suitable high-resolution archives, such as ancient natural lakes, that span
beyond the Holocene, hinders long-term late Quaternary temperature reconstructions in …

Relict rocky shorelines are seemingly rarely preserved in the geological record, often
underrepresented in the literature and the reasons for their scarcity, as well as the conditions …

High-resolution map**, sampling and analysis of upper Quaternary southern African
continental margin sediments recovered from beyond the Last Glacial Maximum shoreline (> …

Large uncertainties still exist about the long-term mechanisms influencing the hydroclimate
variability of southeast Africa where proxy data and model simulations indicate rainfall …

Several models which remain equivocal and controversial cite migration and/or diffusion for
the emergence and spread of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa during the first …

In palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, few studies have focused on comparing the
presence of pollen and phytoliths in surface sediments to the local vegetation …

Leaf wax n-alkane biomarkers are widely used to infer past vegetation dynamics and
hydroclimate changes. The use of these compounds strongly relies on the characterization …