Pan-Africanism vs. single-origin of Homo sapiens : Putting the debate in the light of evolutionary biology

20/07/2022
Read more by Andra Meneganzin, Telmo Pievani, Giorgio Manzi. Published on Evolutionary Anthropology. 18 July 2022

Imported ornaments of a Late Antiquity community in Christian Ethiopia

20/07/2022
Read more by Joanna Then-Obłuska, Jacke Phillips & Katie Tucker Published on Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 10 June 2022

Cosmogenic nuclide dating of  Australopithecus at Sterkfontein, South Africa

07/07/2022
Read more by Darryl E. Granger, Dominic Stratford, Laurent Bruxelles, Ryan J. Gibbon, Ronald J. Clarke, and Kathleen Kuman. Published on PNAS. 27 June 2022

Early knapping techniques do not necessitate cultural transmission

07/07/2022
Read more by Willam D. Snyder, Jonathan S. Reeves and Claudio Tennie. Published on Science Advances. 06 July 2022

Howiesons Poort backed artifacts provide evidence for social connectivity across southern Africa during the Final Pleistocene

27/06/2022
Read more by Amy M. Way, Paloma de la Peña, Eduardo de la Peña & Lyn Wadley. Published on Scientific Reports. 09 June 2022

Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania

27/06/2022
Read more by Henriette Rødland. Published on African Archaeological Review. 10 March 2022

Understanding hunter–gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking

09/06/2022
Read more by Javier Fernández-López de Pablo, Valéria Romano, Maxime Derex, Erik Gjesfjeld, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Marcus J.Hamilton, Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Felix Riede, Sergi Lozano. Published on Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31 May 2022

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

09/06/2022
Read more by Gerrit L. Dusseldorp & Marlize Lombard Published on Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 26 January 2021

Ship graffiti at the Zanzibar Gereza (Old Fort), Stone Town, Unguja, Tanzania

12/05/2022
Read more by John P. Cooper &Alessandro Ghidoni. Published on Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 30 March 2022

Amak’hee 4: a newly documented rock art site in the Swaga Swaga Game Reserve

12/05/2022
Read more by Maciej Grzelczyk. Published on Antiquity. 14 January 2021

Small brains predisposed Late Quaternary mammals to extinction

02/04/2022
Read more by Jacob Dembitzer, Silvia Castiglione, Pasquale Raia & Shai Meiri Published on Scientific Reports. 31 March 2022

Predetermined Refinement: the Earliest Levallois of the Kapthurin Formation

02/04/2022
Read more by Ceri Shipton Published on Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 12 February 2022

A biomechanical investigation of the efficiency hypothesis of hafted tool technology

18/03/2022
Read more by Dominic Coe, Larry Barham, James Gardiner and Robin Crompton. Published on the Royal Society. 16 March 2022

Detecting and mapping the ‘ephemeral’: magnetometric survey of a Pastoral Neolithic settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania

18/03/2022
Read more by Tom Fitton, Daniel A. Contreras, Agness O. Gidna, Audax Z.P. Mabulla, Mary E. Prendergast and Katherine M. Grillo. Published on Antiquity. 28 February 2022

Experimental investigation of orangutans’ lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours

24/02/2022
Read more by Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Shannon P. McPherron, Will Archer, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Claudio Tennie. Published on Plos One. 16 February 2022

Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene

24/02/2022
Read more by Francisco C. Ceballos, Kanat Gürün, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Hasan Can Gemici, Cansu Karamurat, Dilek Koptekin, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Igor Mapelli, Ekin Sağlıcan, Elif Sürer, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, et al Published on Current Biology. 02 July 2021

Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France

10/02/2022
Read more by Ludivic Slimak, Clément Zanolli, Tom Higham, Marine Frouin, Jean Luc Schwenninger, Lee J. Arnold, Martina Demuro, Katerina Douka, Norbert Mercier , Laure Metz et al. Published on Science Advances. 9 February 2022

Mark Making and Human Becoming

10/02/2022
Read more by Lambros Malafouris. Published on Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 29 January 2021

New insights into the history of early Alwa: recent archaeological research in Umm Marrahi, Hosh el-Kab and Abu Nafisa forts (Khartoum Province, Sudan)

04/02/2022
Read more by Mariusz Drzewiecki & Aneta Cedro. Published on Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 02 February 2022

Here be dragons: the untapped archaeological potential of São Tomé and Príncipe

04/02/2022
Read more by Peter Mitchell & Samuel Lunn-Rockliffe. Published on World Archaeology. 27 January 2022

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