Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model

M Singh, L Glowacki - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Many researchers assume that until 10–12,000 years ago, humans lived in small, mobile,
relatively egalitarian bands. This “nomadic-egalitarian model” suffuses the social sciences. It …

The middle/later stone age transition and cultural dynamics of late Pleistocene East Africa

CA Tryon - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA/LSA) transition is a prominent feature of the
African archeological record that began in some places~ 30,000–60,000 years ago …

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

C Shipton, P Roberts, W Archer, SJ Armitage… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant
shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of …

A continuous fish fossil record reveals key insights into adaptive radiation

N Ngoepe, M Muschick, MA Kishe, S Mwaiko… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Adaptive radiations have been instrumental in generating a considerable amount of life's
diversity. Ecological opportunity is thought to be a prerequisite for adaptive radiation, but …

Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial period of Kenya

K O'Brien, K Podkovyroff, DP Fernandez… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Eastern Africa is home to the largest terrestrial migrations on Earth. Though these migratory
systems have been well studied for decades, little is known of their antiquity and …

Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du, PL Koch - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

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 …

[کتاب][B] The Nile Basin: Quaternary geology, geomorphology and prehistoric environments

M Williams - 2019‏ - books.google.com
The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years.
However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this …

Neural networks differentiate between Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages in eastern Africa

M Grove, J Blinkhorn - PloS one, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition marks a major change in how Late Pleistocene
African populations produced and used stone tool kits, but is manifest in various ways …

A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa

L Timbrell, M Grove, A Manica, S Rucina… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Eastern Africa has played a prominent role in debates about human evolution and dispersal
due to the presence of rich archaeological, palaeoanthropological and palaeoenvironmental …