New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body

Read more by Francesco d’Errico, Karen Loise van Niekerk, Lila Geis, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood. Published on Journal of Human Evolution. September 2023

Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)

Read more by Dilpreet Singh Basanti & Naomi Mekonen. Published on African Archaeological Review. 11 September 2023

Bitter legacy: archaeology of early sugar plantation and slavery in São Tomé

Read more by M. Dores Cruz, Larissa Thomas and M. Nazaré Ceita. Published on Antiquity. 14 August 2023

Atlatl use equalizes female and male projectile weapon velocity

Read more by Michelle R. Bebber, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, Robert S. Walker & Dexter Zirkle. Published on scientific reports. 16 August 2023

The Middle Stone Age Sequence at Klipfonteinrand 1 (KFR1), Western Cape, South Africa

Read more by Alex Mackay, Rosaria B. K. Saktura, Corey A. O’Driscoll, Kelsey C. Boyd, Ben Marwick, Ian Moffat & Zenobia Jacobs. Published on Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 14 June 2023

Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast

Read more by Peter J. Mitchell Published on Journal of Archaeological Research. 15 May 2023

The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

Read more by Abigail Anderson, Sophia Chilczuk, Kaylie Nelson, Roxanne Ruther, Cara Wall-Scheffler. Published on Plos one. 28 June 2023

Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier: The Allure of Glass Beads

Read more by Beatriz Marín-Aguilera & Laure Dussubieux. Published on African Archaeological Review. 30 March 2023

Minds on Fire: Cognitive Aspects of Early Firemaking and the Possible Inventors of Firemaking Kits

Read more by Marlize Lombard and Peter Gärdenfors. Published on Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 29 May 2023

A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa

Read more by Aaron P. Ragsdale, Timothy D. Weaver, Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Eileen G. Hoal, Marlo Möller, Brenna M. Henn & Simon Gravel. Published on Nature. 17 May 2023

The archaeological potential of the northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia: The Luwumbu basin

Read more by A. Burke , M. Bisson, F. Schilt,S. Tolan, J. Museba,M. S. M. Drapeau,J. C. Aleman, M. C. Peros. Published on Plos One. 14 March 2023

Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval peoples of the Swahili coast

Read more by Esther S. Brielle, Jeffrey Fleisher, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Kendra Sirak, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kim Callan et.al Published on Nature. 29 March 2023

Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus

Read more by Thomas W. Plummer, James S. Oliver, Emma M Finestone, Peter W. Ditchfield. Published on Science. 09 February 2023

The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered

Read more by Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Elisabeth A. Hildebrand, Austin Chad Hill, Daniel A. Contreras, Justus Erus Edung, Anneke Janzen, Abdikadir Kurewa , James K. Munene, Emmanuel Ndiema and Katherine M. Grillo. Published on Antiquity. 08 December 2022

The Shaqadud Archaeological Project (Sudan): exploring prehistoric cultural adaptations in the Sahelian hinterlands

Read more by Ladislav Varadzin, Lenka Varadzinová, Altayeb Abdallah, Boshra, Abdallah Abdallah, Mustafa Abdalla Mohammed, Stanley H. Ambrose, Pavel Burgert, Martin Černý eàt.al. Published on Antiquity. 06 December 2022

Climate-smart harvesting and storing of water: The legacy of dhaka pits at Great Zimbabwe

Read more by Innocent Pikirayi, Federica Sulas, Bongumenzi Nxumalo, Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, David Stott, Søren M. Kristiansen, Shadreck Chirikure, Tendai Musindo. Published on Anthropocene. December 2022

Cutmarked bone of drought-tolerant extinct megafauna deposited with traces of fire, human foraging, and introduced animals in SW Madagascar

Read more by Sean W. Hixon, Alejandra I. Domic, Kristina G. Douglass, Patrick Roberts, Laurie Eccles, Michael Buckley, Sarah Ivory, Sarah Noe & Douglas J. Kennett. Published on Scientific Reports. 22 November 2022

Nomads Trading with Empires: Intercultural Trade in Ancient Somaliland in the First to Seventh Centuries CE

Read more by Alfredo González-Ruibal, Jorge de Torres, Candela Martínez Barrio, Manuel Antonio Franco Fernández, Adolfo Fernández Fernández, Pablo Gutiérrez de León Juberías, José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros, Michela Gaudiello, and Ahmed Jama Dualeh. Published on American Journal of Archaeology. January 2022

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