Variation in hunting weaponry for more than 300,000 years: A tip cross-sectional area study of Middle Stone Age points from southern Africa

M Lombard - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

J Zilhão, DE Angelucci, MA Igreja, LJ Arnold, E Badal… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A record of the regular exploitation of aquatic foods has been lacking in
Neandertal Europe. By contrast, marine resources feature prominently—alongside personal …

The Southern African stone age sequence updated (II)

M Lombard, J Bradfield, MV Caruana… - The South African …, 2022 - JSTOR
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Lacustrine geoarchaeology in the central Kalahari: Implications for Middle Stone Age behaviour and adaptation in dryland conditions

DSG Thomas, SL Burrough, SD Coulson… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA) was a time of great human adaptation and innovation.
In southern Africa, coastal locations have been viewed as key places for the development of …

Cooked starchy food in hearths ca. 120 kya and 65 kya (MIS 5e and MIS 4) from Klasies River Cave, South Africa

C Larbey, SM Mentzer, B Ligouis, S Wurz… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Plant carbohydrates currently constitute 55–80% of the modern human diet (FAO
and WHO, 1997) and some of today's key global health issues are associated with …

U-Th dating, taphonomy, and taxonomy of shell middens at Klasies River main site indicate stable and systematic coastal exploitation by MIS 5c-d

S Wurz, R Pickering, SM Mentzer - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The archaeological record, particularly of shellfish, from the Klasies River main site (KRM) is
important in understanding the fluctuating nature of coastal occupational patterns and …

The place beyond the trees: renewed excavations of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Olieboomspoort in the Waterberg Mountains of the South African Savanna …

A Val, P de la Peña, M Duval, S Bansal… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa
documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the end of the Later Stone Age …

Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa's Cape south coast

CW Helm, AS Carr, MG Lockley, HC Cawthra… - Ichnos, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Seven hominin ichnosites in aeolianites on the Cape south coast of South Africa have been
dated using Optically Stimulated Luminescence, yielding age estimates from Marine Isotope …

[BOG][B] Comparative Psychology: Evolution and development of brain and behavior

M Papini - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This revised third edition provides an up to date, comprehensive overview of the field of
comparative psychology, integrating both evolutionary and developmental studies of brain …

Population structure and the evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa

RG Klein - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It has been proposed that a multiregional model could describe how Homo sapiens evolved
in Africa beginning 300,000 years ago. Multiregionalism would require enduring …