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

03/06/2023
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

03/06/2023
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

03/05/2023
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

04/04/2023
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

Reconstructing the geological provenance and long-distance movement of rectangular, fishtail, and croisette copper ingots in Iron Age Zambia and Zimbabwe

04/04/2023
Read more by Jay Stephens, David Killick, Shadreck Chirikure. Published on Plos One. 22 March 2023

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

05/03/2023
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

05/03/2023
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

02/02/2023
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

02/02/2023
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

04/01/2023
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

04/01/2023
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

Frontal sinuses and human evolution

04/11/2022
Read more by Antoine Balzeau, Lou Albessard-Ball, Anna Maria Kubicka, Andréa Filippo, Amélie Beaudet, Elena Santos, et al Published on Science Advances. 21 October 2022

Mapping Interactions of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiensFrom the Fossil and Genetic Records

04/11/2022
Read more by Chris Stringer, Lucile Crété Published on Paleoanthropology. 27 October 2022

Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

04/10/2022
Read more by Francesco d’Errico, Lucinda R. Backwell, Lyn Wadley, Lila Geis, Alain Queffelec, William E. Banks & Luc Doyon. Published on Scientific Reports. 29 September 2022

Identifying functional and regional differences in chimpanzee stone tool technology

04/10/2022
Read more by Tomos Proffitt, Jonathan. S. Reeves, Soiret Serge Pacome and Lydia. V. Luncz. Published on The Royal Society Publishing. 21 September 2022

Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan

07/09/2022
Read more by J. Dunne, S. Salvatori, L. Maritan, K. Manning, V. Linseele, T. Gillard, P. Breeze, N. Drake, R.P. Evershed & D. Usai. Published on African Archaeological Review. 31 August 2022

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

20/08/2022
Read more by Andra Meneganzin, Telmo Pievani, Giorgio Manzi. Published on Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 18 July 2022

Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)

20/08/2022
Read more by Gonzalo J. Linares-Matás. Published on African Archaeological Review. 13 April 2022

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