[HTML][HTML] Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years

HS Groucutt, TS White, EML Scerri, E Andrieux… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing
the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia 1, 2, 3, 4. Archaeological …

Le peuplement Paléolithique de l'Afrique du Nord-Est dans son contexte macrorégional

A Leplongeon - L'anthropologie, 2022 - Elsevier
Résumé Cet article est une synthèse des connaissances actuelles sur le Paléolithique
d'Afrique du Nord-Est (actuels Egypte et Soudan) vues sous l'angle de l'histoire des …

The stalagmite record of Southern Arabia: Climatic extremes, human evolution and societal development

SL Nicholson, MJ Jacobson, R Hosfield… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The fluctuating climatic conditions of the Saharo-Arabian deserts are increasingly linked to
human evolutionary events and societal developments. On orbital timescales, the African …

Middle to Late Quaternary palaeolandscapes of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan: Deciphering discontinuous records of human-environment dynamics at the arid …

CJH Ames, CE Cordova, K Boyd, C Schmidt… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Azraq oasis in the Eastern Desert of Jordan has produced considerable stone artefacts
attributed to the early Palaeolithic, yet relatively few data are available regarding the …

Exploring the reliability of handaxe morphological analyses in 2D: a simulation-based approach

LA Courtenay - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Morphological analysis is a critical component in the study of archaeological artefacts.
Handaxes are some of the most iconic tools of the Palaeolithic era, and the study of their …

Human behaviour and climate-linked fluctuations in the rainforests of West-Central Africa

EA Orijemie - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Africa, the cradle of human evolution, has one of the largest and most diverse rainforests in
the world. The African rainforests contain evidence of human occupation as well as …

Monsoon-driven changes in aeolian and fluvial sediment input to the central Red Sea recorded throughout the last 200,000 years

W Ehrmann, PA Wilson, HW Arz… - Climate of the Past …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
Climatic and associated hydrological changes controlled the transport processes and
composition of the sediments in the central Red Sea during the last ca. 200 kyr. Three …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion

ML Fischer, PM Munz, A Asrat, V Foerster… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Eastern Africa and Arabia were major hominin hotspots and critical crossroads for
migrating towards Asia during the late Pleistocene. To decipher the role of spatiotemporal …

[HTML][HTML] Human exploitation of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon) in Middle Pleistocene deposits at Pampore, Kashmir, India

GM Bhat, N Ashton, S Parfitt, A Jukar… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Stone tools in association with Pleistocene elephant remains were recovered from Pampore,
Kashmir, India, in 2000 from channel deposits in the Pampore Member of the Upper Karewa …

Uniformity and diversity in handaxe shape at the end of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia

C Shipton, HS Groucutt, E Scerri, MD Petraglia - Lithic technology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines parameters, causes, and spatio-temporal patterns of handaxe shape
variation from Tabun cave in the Levant, and Khall Amayshan 4B and Khabb Musayyib in …