Abstract The Kalahari Basin, southern Africa preserves a rich archeological record of human
origins and evolution spanning the Early, Middle and Late Pleistocene. Since the 1930s …

Abstract Klasies River Main site, on South Africa's southern Cape coast, has contributed
significantly to understanding Late Pleistocene human evolution. Excavations across this …

The 3D orientation of clasts within a deposit are known to be informative on processes that
formed that deposit. In archaeological sites, a portion of the clasts in the deposit are …

Prepared core technology illustrates in-depth planning and the presence of a mental
template during the core reduction process. This technology is, therefore, a significant …

There are many opinions and arguments about the types of weapons that Neanderthals may
have used. We list five assumptions about Neanderthal weapon-assisted hunting and …

The Fauresmith was a term first coined by archaeologists in the 1920s to describe a cultural
development intermediate between the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages. From the late 1960s …

Dumped deposits are a valuable source of information for inferring past behaviour. They
provide insights into site maintenance, social organization and settlement dynamics. Hohle …

This paper investigates the formation history of the early Acheulean site of EF-HR (Olduvai
Gorge, Tanzania). Our study focuses on the main site (T2-Main Trench) and adjacent …

Umhlatuzana rockshelter has an occupation sequence spanning the last 70,000 years. It is
one of the few sites with deposits covering the Middle to Later Stone Age transition (~ 40,000 …

Over the last few decades, investigations of the southern African Late Pleistocene
archeological record have transformed our understanding of Homo sapiens origins and …