A biomechanical investigation of the efficiency hypothesis of hafted tool technology

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa

Read more by Céline M. Vidal, Christine S. Lane, Asfawossen Asrat, Dan N. Barfod, Darren F. Mark, Emma L. Tomlinson, Amdemichael Zafu Tadesse, Gezahegn Yirgu, et al. Published on Nature. 12 January 2022

Shedding light on the Sudanese Dark Ages: Geophysical research at Old Dongola, a city-state of the Funj period (16th–19th centuries)

Read more by Artur Obłuski, Tomasz Herbich, Robert Ryndziewicz. Published on Archaeological Prospection. 02 November 2021

Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000-year-old social network in Africa

Read more by Jennifer M. Miller & Yiming V. Wang. Published on Nature. 20 December 2021

The structure, centrality, and scale of urban street networks: Cases from Pre-Industrial Afro-Eurasia

Read more by Mark Altaweel, Jack Hanson, Andrea Squitieri. Published on Plos One. 11 November 2021

On reappearance and complexity in musical calling

Read more by David M. Schruth, Christopher N. Templeton, Darryl J. Holman. Published on Plos One. 17 December 2021

67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa

Read more by Patrick Faulkner, Jennifer M. Miller, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Alison Crowther, Ceri Shipton, Emmanuel Ndiema, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia. Published on Plos One. 26 August 2021

Integrative geochronology calibrates the Middle and Late Stone Ages of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift

Read more by Elizabeth M. Niespolo, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Paul R. Renne, Warren D. Sharp, M. Steven Shackley, Stanley H. Ambrose, et al. Published on PNAS. 14 December 2021

Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic

Read more by Marlize Lombard & Anders Högberg. Published on Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 06 January 2021

Middle Stone Age Bifacial Technology and Pressure Flaking at the MIS 3 Site of Toumboura III, Eastern Senegal

Read more by Viola C. Schmid, Katja Douze, Chantal Tribolo, Maria Lorenzo Martinez, Michel Rasse, Laurent Lespez, Brice Lebrun, David Hérisson, Matar Ndiaye & Eric Huysecom. Published on African Archaeological Review. 25 November 2021

Inbreeding, Allee effects and stochasticity might be sufficient to account for Neanderthal extinction

Read more by Krist Vaesen, Fulco Scherjon, Lia Hemerik, Alexander Verpoorte. Published on Plos One. 27 November 2019

The Keimoes 3 desert kite site, South Africa: an aerial lidar and micro-topographic exploration

Read more by Marlize Lombard, Matthew V. Caruana, Jaco van der Walt and Anders Högberg. Published on Antiquity. 24 January 2020

Asian Crop Dispersal in Africa and Late Holocene Human Adaptation to Tropical Environments

Read more by Robert C. Power, Tom Güldemann, Alison Crowther & Nicole Boivin. Published on Journal of World Prehistory. 21 November 2019

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