In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

INTRODUCTION Drimolen is one of several ancient caves located in the Hominid Caves of
South Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) …

This review presents the themes of a special issue dealing with environmental scenarios of
human evolution during the Early Pleistocene (2.6–0.78 Ma; MIS 103-MIS 19) and early …

Despite a rich African Plio-Pleistocene hominin fossil record, the ancestry of Homo and its
relation to earlier australopithecines remain unresolved. Here we report on two partial …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

People have been interested in caves for a very long time. Our distant ancestors used them
for shelter, as sources of water, and as places in which to conduct essential rituals. They …

We describe the physical context of the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave, South
Africa, which contains the fossils of Homo naledi. Approximately 1550 specimens of hominin …

Specimens of Australopithecus sediba from the site of Malapa, South Africa (dating from
approximately 2 million years (Myr) ago) present a mix of primitive and derived traits that …

Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer cap** the
sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils. Uranium-lead dating of the …