Much has been written about Middle Stone Age hunting in southern Africa, yet there is no
comprehensive overview for the development and use of stone-tipped hunting weapons …

Global climate shifted to markedly warmer interglacial conditions across the “mid-Brunhes
transition”(MBT,~ 400 ka). However, a global MBT synthesis that spans marine and …

Lungfishes are the closest extant relatives of tetrapods and preserve ancestral traits linked
with the water-to-land transition. However, their huge genome sizes have hindered …

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

To investigate the role of vegetation and ecosystem diversity on hominin adaptation and
migration, we identify past human habitat preferences over time using a transient 3-million …

Late Pleistocene ice-age climates are routinely characterized as having imposed moisture
stress on low-to mid-latitude ecosystems,,,–. This idea is largely based on fossil pollen …

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 …

The assembly of Africa's iconic C4 grassland ecosystems is central to evolutionary
interpretations of many mammal lineages, including hominins. C4 grasses are thought to …

The archaeological record of Africa provides the earliest evidence for the emergence of the
complex symbolic and technological behaviours that characterize Homo sapiens,,,,,–. The …

In this study, we synthesize terrestrial and marine proxy records, spanning the past 620 ky,
to decipher pan-African climate variability and its drivers and potential linkages to hominin …