Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa

13/01/2022
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)

13/01/2022
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

03/01/2022
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

03/01/2022
Read more by Mark Altaweel, Jack Hanson, Andrea Squitieri. Published on Plos One. 11 November 2021

On reappearance and complexity in musical calling

26/12/2021
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

26/12/2021
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

14/12/2021
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

14/12/2021
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

30/11/2021
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

30/11/2021
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

13/11/2021
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

13/11/2021
Read more by Robert C. Power, Tom Güldemann, Alison Crowther & Nicole Boivin. Published on Journal of World Prehistory. 21 November 2019

Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years

25/10/2021
Read more by Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Anders Eriksson & Andrea Manica. Published on Nature Communications. 24 August 2021

Landscapes and Ethnicity: An Historical Archaeology of Khami-Phase Sites in Southwestern Zimbabwe

25/10/2021
Read more by Lesley Hatipone Machiridza. Published on Historical Archaeology. 15 September 2020

Remote Sensing Reveals Lasting Legacies of Land-Use by Small-Scale Foraging Communities in the Southwestern Indian Ocean

20/10/2021
Read more by Dylan S. Davis and Kristina Douglass. Published on Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 03 September 2021

Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari

20/10/2021
Read more by Jayne Wilkins, Benjamin J. Schoville, Robyn Pickering, Luke Gliganic, Benjamin Collins, Kyle S. Brown, Jessica von der Meden, et al. Published on Nature. 31 March 2021

The Plio-Pleistocene sequence of Oued Boucherit (Algeria): A unique chronologically-constrained archaeological and palaeontological record in North Africa

11/10/2021
Read more by Mathieu Duval, Mohamed Sahnouni, Josep M.Parés, Janvan der Made, Salah Abdessadok, Zoheir Harichane, Razika Chelli Cheheb, Kamel Boulaghraif, Alfredo Pérez-González. Published on Quaternary Science Reviews. 01 November 2021

The archaeological evidence for the appearance of pastoralism and farming in southern Africa

11/10/2021
Read more by Faye Lander, Thembi Russell. Published on Plos One. 14 June 2018

Regional patterns of diachronic technological change in the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa

05/10/2021
Read more by Manuel Will, Nicholas J. Conard. Published on Plos One. 17 September 2020

Dialects of Madagascar

05/10/2021
Read more by Maurizio Serva,Michele Pasquini. Published on Plos One. 02 October 2020

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