Variation in hunting weaponry for more than 300,000 years: A tip cross-sectional area study of Middle Stone Age points from southern Africa

M Lombard - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Much has been written about Middle Stone Age hunting in southern Africa, yet there is no
comprehensive overview for the development and use of stone-tipped hunting weapons …

Did Pleistocene Africans use the spearthrower‐and‐dart?

M Lombard, JJ Shea - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Archeologists commonly suppose that among complex projectile weapons humans use as
subsistence aids, the spearthrower‐and‐dart preceded bow‐and‐arrow use. And yet …

Early Levallois core technology between marine isotope stage 12 and 9 in Western Europe

MH Moncel, N Ashton, M Arzarello, F Fontana… - Journal of human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Early Levallois core technology is usually dated in Europe to the end of Marine Isotope
Stage (MIS) 9 and particularly from the beginning of MIS 8 to MIS 6. This technology is …

[图书][B] The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

SL Kuhn - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Pressure flaking to serrate bifacial points for the hunt during the MIS5 at Sibudu Cave (South Africa)

V Rots, C Lentfer, VC Schmid, G Porraz, NJ Conard - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Projectile technology is considered to appear early in the southern African Middle Stone Age
(MSA) and the rich and high resolution MSA sequence of Sibudu Cave in KwaZulu-Natal …

Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals

S Gaudzinski-Windheuser, ES Noack, E Pop… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Animal resources have been part of hominin diets since around 2.5 million years ago, with
sharp-edged stone tools facilitating access to carcasses. How exactly hominins acquired …

Potential biomarkers for southern African hunter-gatherer arrow poisons applied to ethno-historical and archaeological samples

S Isaksson, A Högberg, M Lombard, J Bradfield - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The detection of complex poison recipes applied to ancient hunting weapons has the
potential to provide important insights into traditional pharmacological knowledge systems …

Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than 60 000 years ago: Results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point from Klasies River Main site, South …

J Bradfield, M Lombard, J Reynard, S Wurz - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The bone point (SAM 42160) from> 60 ka deposits at Klasies River Main Site, South Africa,
is reassessed. We clarify the stratigraphic integrity of SAM 42160 and confirm its Middle …

Human athletic paleobiology; using sport as a model to investigate human evolutionary adaptation

DP Longman, JCK Wells… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The use of sport as a conceptual framework offers unprecedented opportunities to improve
our understanding of what the body does, shedding new light on our evolutionary trajectory …

Cultural evolution and environmental change in Central Europe between 40 and 15 ka

A Maier, P Stojakowits, C Mayr, S Pfeifer… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The role of environmental change in the evolution of cultural traits is a topic of long-standing
scientific debate with strongly contrasting views. Major obstacles for assessing …