The Southern African stone age sequence updated (II)

M Lombard, J Bradfield, MV Caruana… - The South African …, 2022 - JSTOR
A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

Evidence for Earlier Stone Age 'coastal use': The site of Dungo IV, Benguela Province, Angola

I Mesfin, MH Benjamim, AE Lebatard, T Saos… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The relationship between Earlier Stone Age (ESA) hominins and the southern African
coastal environment has been poorly investigated, despite the high concentration of open …

A new approach to quantifying raw material selectivity in the African Acheulean: perspectives from Angola and South Africa

I Mesfin, MG Lotter, MH Benjamim - Journal of African Archaeology, 2021 - brill.com
In southern Africa, the use of gravel outcrops has been recorded at a range of Earlier Stone
Age sites, and this raises questions about the diversity of raw material sourcing practices …

The large cutting tools from Wonderboom, South Africa

MG Lotter, MV Caruana, M Lombard - Lithic Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Wonderboom remains largely excluded from discussions about the Earlier Stone Age of
southern Africa, despite having one of the largest Acheulean assemblages for the region …

Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study

GL Dusseldorp, M Lombard - Journal of Archaeological Method and …, 2021 - Springer
We develop a framework to differentiate the technological niches of co-existing hominin
species by reviewing some theoretical biases influential in thinking about techno-behaviours …

Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating at Penhill Farm: An Earlier Stone Age Acheulean locality in the lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa

MG Lotter, K Kuman, DE Granger - Quaternary Geochronology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Penhill Farm is an Earlier Stone Age (ESA) Acheulean archaeological site located
within the southeastern Cape coastal region of South Africa. Although ESA artifacts have …

Wonderboompoort, South Africa: A natural game funnel for meat harvesting during the later Acheulean

M Lombard, MG Lotter, MV Caruana - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract We revisit Wonderboompoort, South Africa, in terms of its potential to have served
as a natural game funnel during the Pleistocene later Acheulean. The geological and …

An introduction to the formal tools from the Acheulean site of Penhill Farm, lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa

MG Lotter - The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2020 - JSTOR
This study provides a preliminary description of the formal tools from Penhill Farm, a site
located along the lower Sundays River near the town of Addo. It contains a large and well …

Comparing morphological variability in handaxes from Penhill Farm and Amanzi Springs, Eastern Cape, South Africa

M Caruana, MG Lotter - Southern African Field Archaeology, 2022 - journals.uj.ac.za
Recent excavations at Penhill Farm and Amanzi Springs have reinvigorated interest in the
Acheulean archaeological record of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. While this …

Exploring Acheulean biface diversity in the central Narmada Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India

V Singh - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Central India occupies a pivotal place in the study of the Indian Palaeolithic. It is rich in
Lower Palaeolithic records, with over 300 occurrences reported, and the region's antiquity is …