If we restrict the use of Homo sapiens in the fossil record to specimens which share a
significant number of derived features in the skeleton with extant H. sapiens, the origin of our …

Accumulating genomic, fossil and archaeological data from Africa have led to a renewed
interest in models of modern human origins. However, such discussions are often discipline …

Africa's Middle Stone Age (MSA) may have lasted almost half a million years, but its earliest
expression is not yet well understood. The MSA is best known for innovations that appear in …

Africa hosts the greatest human genetic diversity globally, but legacies of ancient population
interactions and dispersals across the continent remain understudied. Here, we report …

It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

This study presents the earliest evidence of long-distance obsidian transport at the∼ 200 ka
Sibilo School Road Site (SSRS), an early Middle Stone Age site in the Kapthurin Formation …

The archaeology of East Africa during the last~ 65,000 years plays a central role in debates
about the origins and dispersal of modern humans, Homo sapiens. Despite the historical …

Increased population density is among the proposed drivers of the behavioural changes
culminating in the Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA–LSA) transition and human dispersals …

Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA/LSA) transition is a prominent feature of the
African archeological record that began in some places~ 30,000–60,000 years ago …

The Middle to Later Stone Age transition marks a major change in how Late Pleistocene
African populations produced and used stone tool kits, but is manifest in various ways …