Changes in the strength and position of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the
Last Glacial cycle have been invoked to explain both millennial and glacial–interglacial …

Changing climates, environment, and sea levels during the Middle and Late Pleistocene
must have had significant impacts on early modern humans and their behavior. However …

Soil pH regulates the capacity of soils to store and supply nutrients, and thus contributes
substantially to controlling productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. However, soil pH is not an …

The expansion of modern human populations in Africa 80,000 to 60,000 years ago and their
initial exodus out of Africa have been tentatively linked to two phases of technological and …

Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200
and 100ka, and recent evidence suggests that complex cognition may have appeared …

The later Pleistocene archaeological record of southernmost Africa encompasses several
Middle Stone Age industries and the transition to the Later Stone Age. Through this period …

Between 15,000 and 18,000 years ago, large amounts of ice and meltwater entered the
North Atlantic during Heinrich stadial 1. This caused substantial regional cooling, but major …

This paper presents new information obtained from a recent excavation and reassessment
of the stratigraphy, chronology, archaeological assemblages and environmental context of …

Humans evolved in Africa, but where and how remain unclear. Here it is proposed that the
southern coastal plain (SCP) of South Africa may have served as a geographical point of …

With a rich sequence of floral and faunal remains spanning the past> 65,000 years,
Boomplaas Cave is among the more important paleoenvironmental archives from South …