[کتاب][B] The archaeology of southern Africa

P Mitchell - 2024‏ - books.google.com
Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

The mosaic genome of indigenous African cattle as a unique genetic resource for African pastoralism

K Kim, T Kwon, T Dessie, DA Yoo, OA Mwai, J Jang… - Nature Genetics, 2020‏ - nature.com
Cattle pastoralism plays a central role in human livelihood in Africa. However, the genetic
history of its success remains unknown. Here, through whole-genome sequence analysis of …

9000 years of human lakeside adaptation in the Ethiopian Afar: Fisher-foragers and the first pastoralists in the Lake Abhe basin during the African Humid Period

L Khalidi, C Mologni, C Ménard, L Coudert… - Quaternary Science …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In this study, new approaches are developed for measuring and understanding the reactivity
of East African amplifier lakes and the societies that occupied their margins to African …

History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity

A Da Silva, A Ahbara, I Baazaoui, SB Jemaa… - Animal …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue
to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we …

Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia

A Janzen, KK Richter, O Mwebi, S Brown, V Onduso… - PloS one, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Assessing past foodways, subsistence strategies, and environments depends on the
accurate identification of animals in the archaeological record. The high rates of …

The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction

M Frachetti, N Di Cosmo, J Esper, L Khalidi… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing
collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still …

Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa

P Roberts, ME Prendergast, A Janzen… - Palaeogeography …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The ecological adaptations that stimulated the dispersal and technological strategies of our
species during the Late Pleistocene remain hotly disputed, with some influential theories …

Genomic analysis reveals limited hybridization among three giraffe species in Kenya

RTF Coimbra, S Winter, A Muneza, S Fennessy… - BMC biology, 2023‏ - Springer
Background In the speciation continuum, the strength of reproductive isolation varies, and
species boundaries are blurred by gene flow. Interbreeding among giraffe (Giraffa spp.) in …

Molecular and isotopic evidence for milk, meat, and plants in prehistoric eastern African herder food systems

KM Grillo, J Dunne, F Marshall, ME Prendergast… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
The development of pastoralism transformed human diets and societies in grasslands
worldwide. The long-term success of cattle herding in Africa has been sustained by dynamic …

Early pastoral mobility and seasonality in Kenya assessed through stable isotope analysis

A Janzen, M Balasse, SH Ambrose - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Eastern African pastoralists today depend on mobility to access seasonally available
pastures for their livestock. Here, we evaluate the importance of mobility strategies for …