Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion

10/05/2021
Read more by Dirk Seidensticker, Wannes Hubau, Dirk Verschuren, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Pierre de Maret, Carina M. Schlebusch and Koen Bostoen. Published on Science Advances. 12 February 2021

Diversification, Intensification and Specialization: Changing Land Use in Western Africa from 1800 BC to AD 1500

10/05/2021
Read more by Andrea U. Kay, Dorian Q. Fuller, Katharina Neumann, Barbara Eichhorn, Alexa Höhn, Julie Morin-Rivat, et.al. Published on Journal of World Prehistory. 16 May 2019

Child’s grave is the oldest human burial found in Africa

06/05/2021
Read more by Jamie Shreeve. Published on National Geographic. 5 May 2021

Gebel Ramlah—a Unique Newborns’ Cemetery of the Neolithic Sahara

06/05/2021
Read more by Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Tomasz Goslar, Joel D. Irish & Jacek Kabaciński. Published on African Archaeological Review. 20 July 2018

Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications

05/05/2021
Read more by B. L. Hardy, M.-H. Moncel, C. Kerfant, M. Lebon, L. Bellot-Gurlet & N. Mélard. Published on Scientific Reports. 09 April 2020

The Transition from Hunting–Gathering to Food Production in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia

05/05/2021
Read more by John W. Arthur, Matthew C. Curtis, Kathryn J. W. Arthur, Mauro Coltorti, Pierluigi Pieruccini, et.al. Published on African Archaeological Review. 07 March 2019

The Early and Middle Holocene Lithic Industries of Ifri n’Etsedda (Eastern Rif, Morocco)

26/04/2021
Read more by Manuel Broich, Alessandro Potì, Jörg Linstädter, Juan F. Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco, Margarita Vadillo Conesa, Abdeslam Mikdad & Gerd-Christian Weniger. Published on African Archaeological Review. 12 March 2020

The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 – an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan

26/04/2021
Read more by Mirosław Masojć , Ju Yong Kim, Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska, Young Kwan Sohn, Maciej Ehlert, Grzegorz Michalec, Marzena Cendrowska,et.al. Published on Plos One. 23 March 2021

Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic

25/04/2021
Read more by Lawrence Barham & Daniel Everett  Published on Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 10 August 2020

Long-distance dispersal effects and Neolithic waves of advance

25/04/2021
Read more by Joaquim Fort, Maria Mercè Pareta Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. July 2020

A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5: Archaeology, chronology, and paleoenvironment of the Ravin Blanc I (eastern Senegal)

23/04/2021
Read more by Katja Douze, Laurent Lespez, Michel Rasse, Chantal Tribolo, Aline Garnier, Brice Lebrun, Norbert Mercier, Matar Ndiaye, Benoît Chevrier, Eric Huysecom Published on Journal of Human Evolution. May 2021

Stressful times for women – Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum

23/04/2021
Read more by Kristina Penezić, Marko Porčić, Petra Kathrin Urban, Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, Sofija Stefanović Published on Journal of Archaeological Science. October 2020

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

21/04/2021
Read more by Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin, Sandra Díaz, et.al Published on Proceedings of The National Academy of Science. April 27 2021

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

21/04/2021
Read more by Hugo Zeberg & Svante Pääbo Published on Nature. 30 September 2020

Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

21/04/2021
Read more by Benjamin Vernot, Elena I. Zavala, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Zenobia Jacobs, Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Frédéric Romagné, et.al Published on Science. 15 April 2021

Indicators of sexual dimorphism in Homo antecessor permanent canines

21/04/2021
Read more by Cecilia García-Campos, María Martinén-Torres, Mario Modesto-Mata, Laura Martín-Francés, Marina Martínez de Pinillos, José María Bermúdez de Castro  Published on National Library of Medecine. 10 March 2021

New hominin remains and revised context from the earliest Homo erectus locality in East Turkana, Kenya

19/04/2021
Read more by Ashley S. Hammond, Silindokuhle S. Mavuso, Maryse Biernat, David R. Braun, Zubair Jinnah, Sharon Kuo, et.al. Published on Nature Communications. 13 April 2021

Tracking late Pleistocene Neandertals on the Iberian coast

19/04/2021
Read more by Eduardo Mayoral, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Jéremy Duveau, Ana Santos, Antonio Rodríguez Ramírez, Juan A. Morales, Luis A. Morales & Ricardo Díaz-Delgado  Published on Scientific Reports. 11 March 2021

The enigmatic origins of the human brain

16/04/2021
Read more by Amélie Beaudet Published on Science. 09 April 2021

Honey-collecting in prehistoric West Africa from 3500 years ago

16/04/2021
Read more by Julie Dunne, Alexa Höhn, Gabriele Franke, Katharina Neumann, Peter Breunig, Toby Gillard, Caitlin Walton-Doyle & Richard P. Evershed Published on Nature Communications. 14 April 2021

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