Landscape evolution and hydrology at the Late Pleistocene archaeological site of Narabeb in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia

Read more by Abi Stone, George Leader, Dominic Stratford, Theodore Marks, Kaarina Efraim, Rachel Bynoe, Rachel Smedley, Andrew Gunn, Eugene Marais. Published on Quaternary Science Advances. June 2024

Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania

Read more by Irene Solano-Megías, José Manuel Maíllo-Fernández & Audax Z. P. Mabulla Published on African Archaeological Review. 16 May 2024

Early agriculture and crop transitions at Kakapel Rockshelter in the Lake Victoria region of eastern Africa

Read more by Steven T. Goldstein†, Natalie G. Mueller†, Anneke Janzen, Christine Ogola, Rita Dal Martello, Ricardo Fernandes, Sophia Li, Victor Iminjili, Sara Juengst, Anthony Odera Otwani, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Ke Wang, Emmanuel Ndiema and Nicole Boivin Published on the Royal Society Publishing. 10 July 2024

Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers

Read more by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Javier Blanco-Portillo, Bogdan Pricop, Alexander G. Ioannidis, Balthasar Bickel, Andrea Manica, Lucio Vinicius & Andrea Bamberg Migliano Published on Nature Human Behavior. 27 May 2024

Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans

Read more by Frédérik Saltré, Joël Chadœuf, Thomas Higham, Monty Ochocki, Sebastián Block, Ellyse Bunney, Bastien Llamas & Corey J. A. Bradshaw. Published on nature communications. 22 May 2024

Kanyimangin: the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition in the south-west of the Turkana Basin

Read more byAurélien Mounier, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Marjolein D. Bosch, Sol Sánchez-Dehesa Galán, Cécile Chapon-Sao, Hema Achyuthan, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Camille Daujeard et.al. Published on Antiquity. 11 October 2023

Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations

Read more by Philip Riris, Fabio Silva, Enrico Crema, Alessio Palmisano, Erick Robinson, Peter E. Siegel, Jennifer C. French, Erlend Kirkeng Jørgensen,et.al. Published on nature. 01 May 2024

Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan

Read more by Joanna A. Ciesielska ,Pétrus Le Roux ,Erin Scott ,Marie Lucas etPatrick Roberts. Published on African Archaeological Review. 20 April 2024

Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal

Read more by Matar Ndiaye ,Laurent Lespez ,Chantal Tribolo ,Michel Rasse ,Irka Hadjas ,Sarah Davidoux ,Éric Huysecom ,Katja Douze. Published on Plos One. 28 March 2024

Hominin population bottleneck coincided with migration from Africa during the Early Pleistocene ice age transition

Read more by Giovanni Muttoni and Dennis V. Kent. Published on pnas. 11 March 2024

Ancient genomes and the evolutionary path of modern humans

Read more by E. Andrew Bennett, Qiaomei Fu Published on Cell. 29 February 2024

Cognitive Archeology and the Attentional System: An Evolutionary Mismatch for the Genus Homo

Read more by Emiliano Bruner Published on Journal of Intelligence. 12 September 2023

Eurasian back-migration into Northeast Africa was a complex and multifaceted process

Read more by Rickard Hammarén, Steven T. Goldstein, Carina M. Schlebusch. Published on Plos One. 08 November 2023

Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

Read more by Alex A. Pollen, Umut Kilik, Craig B. Lowe & J. Gray Camp. Published on nature reviews genetics. 03 February 2023

The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Read more by Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, Concetta Burgarella, Rickard Hammarén, Anders Eriksson, Mário Vicente, Cecile Jolly, Armando Semo, Hilde Gunnink, Sara Pacchiarotti, Leon Mundeke, et.al. Published on nature. 29 November 2023

Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi

Read more by Lee R BergerTebogo MakhubelaKeneiloe MolopyaneAshley KrügerPatrick Randolph-QuinneyMarina ElliottBecca PeixottoAgustín FuentesPaul Tafforeau et.al. Published on eLife. 05 June 2023

Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago

Read more by L. Barham, G. A. T. Duller, I. Candy, C. Scott, C. R. Cartwright, J. R. Peterson, C. Kabukcu, M. S. Chapot, F. Melia, V. Rots, N. George, N. Taipale, P. Gethin & P. Nkombwe. Published on Nature. 20 September 2023

Social networks as risk-mitigation strategies in south-west Madagascar

Read more by Dylan S. Davis ,Tanambelo Rasolondrainy, George Manahira, Sean Hixon, Vanillah Andriankaja, Laurance Hubertine. Published onAntiquity. 22 August 2023

Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry

Read more by Sandra Oliveira, Anne-Maria Fehn, Beatriz Amorim, Mark Stoneking and Jorge Rocha. Published on Science Advances. 22 September 2023

First identification of an evolving Middle Stone Age ochre culture at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia

Read more by Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Martine Regert & Francesco d’Errico Published on Scientific Reports. 08 September 2023

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