Downscaling last glacial maximum climate over southern Africa

FA Engelbrecht, CW Marean, RM Cowling… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
We conducted the first dynamic downscaling of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate over
southern Africa using a regional climate model. Eight coupled global climate model (CGCM) …

The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum

BM Chase, M Chevalier, A Boom, AS Carr - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
A fundamental and long-standing question of southern African palaeoclimatology is the way
tropical and temperate climate system dynamics have influenced rainfall regimes across the …

Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

J Ruan, A Timmermann, P Raia, KS Yun, E Zeller… - Science, 2023 - science.org
When, where, and how often hominin interbreeding happened is largely unknown. We study
the potential for Neanderthal-Denisovan admixture using species distribution models that …

Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations

EKF Chan, A Timmermann, BF Baldi, AE Moore… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa around 200 thousand years ago (ka),,–.
Although some of the oldest skeletal remains suggest an eastern African origin, southern …

Concurrent Asian monsoon strengthening and early modern human dispersal to East Asia during the last interglacial

H Ao, J Ruan, M Martinón-Torres… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The relationship between initial Homo sapiens dispersal from Africa to East Asia and the
orbitally paced evolution of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM)—currently the largest …

A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa

T Caley, T Extier, JA Collins, E Schefuß, L Dupont… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly
constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution …

Theoretical and methodological approaches to ecological changes, social behaviour and human intergroup tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP

P Spikins, JC French, S John-Wood… - Journal of archaeological …, 2021 - Springer
Archaeological evidence suggests that important shifts were taking place in the character of
human social behaviours 300,000 to 30,000 years ago. New artefact types appear and are …

Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than 60 000 years ago: Results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point from Klasies River Main site, South …

J Bradfield, M Lombard, J Reynard, S Wurz - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The bone point (SAM 42160) from> 60 ka deposits at Klasies River Main Site, South Africa,
is reassessed. We clarify the stratigraphic integrity of SAM 42160 and confirm its Middle …

U-Th dating, taphonomy, and taxonomy of shell middens at Klasies River main site indicate stable and systematic coastal exploitation by MIS 5c-d

S Wurz, R Pickering, SM Mentzer - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The archaeological record, particularly of shellfish, from the Klasies River main site (KRM) is
important in understanding the fluctuating nature of coastal occupational patterns and …

Connections, culture and environments around 100 000 years ago at Klasies River main site

S Wurz, SE Bentsen, J Reynard… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper the new excavations at Klasies River main site are introduced and the first
results presented and linked with previous work, establishing a baseline for future reporting …