Pleistocene North African genomes link near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

M Van de Loosdrecht, A Bouzouggar, L Humphrey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
North Africa is a key region for understanding human history, but the genetic history of its
people is largely unknown. We present genomic data from seven 15,000-year-old modern …

[BOK][B] The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

SL Kuhn - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco

LT Humphrey, I De Groote, J Morales, N Barton… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
Dental caries is an infectious disease that causes tooth decay. The high prevalence of
dental caries in recent humans is attributed to more frequent consumption of plant foods rich …

A late Pleistocene refugium in Mediterranean North Africa? Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from stable isotope analyses of land snail shells (Haua Fteah, Libya)

AL Prendergast, RE Stevens, TC O'Connell… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Pleistocene to Holocene archaeological record of North Africa is key to
understanding the emergence of anatomically modern humans into West Asia and Europe …

The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa

RNE Barton, CS Lane, PG Albert, D White… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Sites in North Africa hold key information for dating the presence of Homo sapiens
and the distribution of Middle Stone Age (MSA), Middle Palaeolithic (MP) and Later Stone …

Recent historical migrations have shaped the gene pool of Arabs and Berbers in North Africa

LR Arauna, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
North Africa is characterized by its diverse cultural and linguistic groups and its genetic
heterogeneity. Genomic data has shown an amalgam of components mixed since pre …

Large scale anthropogenic reduction of forest cover in Last Glacial Maximum Europe

JO Kaplan, M Pfeiffer, JCA Kolen, BAS Davis - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Reconstructions of the vegetation of Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) are an
enigma. Pollen-based analyses have suggested that Europe was largely covered by steppe …

ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age

A Desmond, N Barton, A Bouzouggar, K Douka… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study applies peptide mass fingerprinting (also known as 'ZooMS') to bone tools from
the North African Palaeolithic, as the first stage in a research programme aimed at …

The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents

B Secher, R Fregel, JM Larruga, VM Cabrera… - BMC evolutionary …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome analyses have greatly
improved the phylogeny and phylogeography of human mtDNA. Human mitochondrial DNA …

The Late Quaternary hominins of Africa: The skeletal evidence from MIS 6-2

FE Grine - Africa from MIS 6-2: population dynamics and …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The late Quaternary African hominin fossil record provides a tantalizing glimpse into
considerable temporal and geographic morphological diversity within the genus Homo. A …