This paper reviews information on past vegetation of tropical Africa during the Cenozoic,
focused upon the last 10Ma, a time spanning hominid record in Central and East Africa …

In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the
Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. This …

Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

Marine records of African climate variability document a shift toward more arid conditions
after 2.8 million years ago (Ma), evidently resulting from remote forcing by cold North Atlantic …

The earliest hominin occupation of Europe is one of the most debated topics in
palaeoanthropology. However, the purportedly oldest of the Early Pleistocene sites in …

Initial archaeological explorations of the early 1970s in the Kada Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
indicated the presence of artifacts of great antiquity in the region (Roche and Tiercelin, 1977 …

The systematic archaeological and geological survey and excavations at Gona between
1992–1994 led to the discovery of well-flaked stone artefacts which are currently the oldest …

Abstract Design theory provides a useful means for analyzing both practical and prestige
technologies, although the goals and constraints of each are very different. The aggrandizer …

A broad consensus among paleoanthropologists holds that the Homo clade originated in
Africa sometime between 2· 0 and 3· 0 Ma ago. However, a gap in the east African hominid …