The industrial market depends intensely on wood-based composites for buildings, furniture,
and construction, involving significant developments in wood glues since 80% of wood …

Twenty‐one years ago, a landmark exploration of mitochondrial DNA diversity popularized
the idea of a recent African origin for all living humans. 1 The ancestral African population …

Ancient adhesives used in multicomponent tools may be among our best material evidences
of cultural evolution and cognitive processes in early humans. African Homo sapiens is …

Powerful categories of evidence for symbolically mediated behaviour, variously described
as 'modern'or 'cognitively modern'human behaviour, are geometric or iconographic …

Compound adhesives made from red ochre mixed with plant gum were used in the Middle
Stone Age (MSA), South Africa. Replications reported here suggest that early artisans did …

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 …

Over the last two decades, red ochre has played a pivotal role in discussions about the
cognitive and cultural evolution of early modern humans during the African Middle Stone …

This paper offers a broad and critical overview of current discussions on the potential uses
and the characterization of pigments in prehistory, with a special focus on prehistoric rock …

Recently discovered bone implements from Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits at Sibudu
Cave, South Africa, confirm the existence of a bone tool industry for the Howiesons Poort …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …