There is a growing consensus in early hominin studies that savannas did not play a
significant role in the emergence of human evolutionary processes. Early hominins have …

A dramatic increase in regional summer rainfall amount has been proposed for the Arabian
Peninsula during the middle Holocene (ca. 9-5 ka BP) based on lacustrine sediments …

Although climate change is considered to have been a large-scale driver of African human
evolution, landscape-scale shifts in ecological resources that may have shaped novel …

The prime-adult-dominated mortality profile of large bovids in the 1.8 Ma FLK Zinj
assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, was recently attributed to ambush hunting by early …

The shift to increased meat consumption is one of the major adaptive changes in hominin
dietary evolution. Although meat eating by Oldowan hominins is well evidenced at …

In the modern world, creativity often culminates in material things or ideas about how to
make them, and therefore should be of major interest of archaeologists, who deal with the …

This study presents a taphonomic examination of the ca. 1.84 million year old (Ma) bovid
fauna from FLK Level 22 (FLK Zinj), Bed I, Olduvai Gorge using a new GIS spatial analysis …

The extent, nature, and temporality of early hominin food procurement strategies have been
subject to extensive debate. In this article, we examine evidence for the seasonal scheduling …

A growing number of authors have discussed the role of climate change in periods of
important biological and cultural transition along the hominin lineage. This paper …

To understand the ecological dominance of Homo sapiens, we need to investigate the
origins of the plasticity that has enabled our colonization of the planet. We can approach this …