[HTML][HTML] Lessons from a lakebed: unpicking hydrological change and early human landscape use in the Makgadikgadi basin, Botswana

SL Burrough, DSG Thomas, JR Allin… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The intersection of archaeological material with the landscape is investigated using OSL
dating of landforms associated with Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeology in the …

Earliest known human burial in Africa

M Martinón-Torres, F d'Errico, E Santos, A Álvaro Gallo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and
debate,–. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa …

Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

ME Prendergast, J Miller, O Mwebi, E Ndiema… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Pleistocene (∼ 125–12 thousand years ago) record of eastern Africa is
critical for assessing the origin, evolution and history of human behavior. Faunal remains are …

Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

F d'Errico, AP Martí, C Shipton, E Le Vraux… - Journal of Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract African Middle Stone Age (MSA) populations used pigments, manufactured and
wore personal ornaments, made abstract engravings, and produced fully shaped bone tools …

Tropical forests in the deep human past

EML Scerri, P Roberts… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since Darwin, studies of human evolution have tended to give primacy to open 'savannah'
environments as the ecological cradle of our lineage, with dense tropical forests cast as …

Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa

J Blinkhorn, L Timbrell, M Grove… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Homo sapiens have adapted to an incredible diversity of habitats around the globe. This
capacity to adapt to different landscapes is clearly expressed within Africa, with Late …

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 …, 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 …

Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal

K Niang, J Blinkhorn, MD Bateman… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies first appear in the archaeological records of
northern, eastern and southern Africa during the Middle Pleistocene epoch. The absence of …

[HTML][HTML] Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

C Culley, A Janzen, S Brown, ME Prendergast… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The morphological differentiation of African bovids in highly fragmented zooarchaeological
assemblages is a major hindrance to reconstructing the nature and spread of pastoralism in …

Assessing Pleistocene–Holocene climatic and environmental change in insular Near Oceania using stable isotope analysis of archaeological fauna

P Roberts, S Hixon, R Hamilton… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In comparison to temperate and arid regions, environmental responses to the Last Glacial
Maximum and the Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene boundary remain poorly known for …