Lithic artifacts from the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) offer an avenue to explore a range
of human behaviors, including mobility, raw material acquisition, trade and exchange …

The intersection of archaeological material with the landscape is investigated using OSL
dating of landforms associated with Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeology in the …

Together with human fossils from eastern and northern Africa, southern African specimens
show that anatomically modern or near-modern people were present by 100,000 years ago …

This paper provides a preliminary chronostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental framework
for the Late Pleistocene archaeological sequence at Melikane Rockshelter in mountainous …

Background The earliest accepted beads are perforated shells from MSA or Middle
Palaeolithic (MP) contexts. Blombos Cave, in South Africa, has 41 perforated tick shells …

Эта книга представляет собой попытку ответить, на следующие вопросы: 1) как
происходил переход от среднего к верхнему палеолиту во времени и в пространстве …

Rhino Cave, located at the World Heritage site of Tsodilo Hills, is one of the three main
Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites in Botswana. Initial investigations during the mid-1990s left …

The notion that the evolution of core reduction strategies involved increasing efficiency in
cutting edge production is prevalent in narratives of hominin technological evolution. Yet a …

Relative to the periods that immediately follow and precede it (which broadly encompass the
Later Stone Age on the one hand and the Howieson's Poort and Still Bay Industries on the …

This paper documents the abundance of Stone Age finds in the Middle Kalahari, both
through earlier publications and newly documented sites. Results of several decades of …