Understanding the cause of late Quaternary mammal extinctions is the subject of intense
debate spanning the fields of archeology and paleontology. In the global context, the losses …

The tephrostratigraphic framework for Pliocene and Early Pleistocene paleoanthropological
sites in East Africa has been well established through nearly 50 years of research, but a …

Eastern Africa is an important area to study early populations of Homo sapiens because
subsets of those populations likely dispersed to Eurasia and subsequently throughout the …

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

Lithic technologies have been used to trace dispersals of early human populations within
and beyond Africa. Convergence in lithic systems has the potential to confound such …

Much debate has revolved around the question of whether the mode of evolutionary and
ecological turnover in the fossil record of African mammals was continuous or pulsed, and …

Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions
Page 1 JASs Invited Reviews Journal of Anthropological Sciences the JASs is published by the …

The opening and closing of the equatorial East African forest belt during the Quaternary is
thought to have influenced the biogeographic histories of early modern humans and fauna …

Abstract The late Quaternary African hominin fossil record provides a tantalizing glimpse into
considerable temporal and geographic morphological diversity within the genus Homo. A …

Nubian Levallois cores, now known from sites in eastern Africa, the Nile Valley and Arabia,
have been used as a material culture marker for Upper Pleistocene dispersals of hominins …