[HTML][HTML] Making points: the middle stone age lithic industry of the Makgadikgadi basin, Botswana

S Staurset, SD Coulson, S Mothulatshipi… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies of early human occupation of Africa over recent decades have profoundly changed
how we understand our early ancestors, their inventiveness and adaptability. The spread of …

Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

R Potts, AK Behrensmeyer, JT Faith, CA Tryon… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Development of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) before 300,000 years ago raises the
question of how environmental change influenced the evolution of behaviors characteristic …

Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa: correlations, chronology and a context for early modern humans

N Blegen, CA Tryon, JT Faith, DJ Peppe… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The tephrostratigraphic framework for Pliocene and Early Pleistocene paleoanthropological
sites in East Africa has been well established through nearly 50 years of research, but a …

Is it time to retire NASTIES in southern Africa? Moving beyond the culture-historical framework for Middle Stone Age lithic assemblage variability

J Wilkins - Lithic Technology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa provides crucial insight on early
Homo sapiens behavioral evolution. Archaeologists have traditionally presented lithic …

Low-cost efficient magnetic adsorbent for phosphorus removal from water

L Zhang, H Dan, OT Bukasa, L Song, Y Liu, L Wang… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Adsorption using magnetic adsorbents makes the phosphorus removal from water simple
and efficient. However, most of the reported magnetic adsorbents use chemically …

Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East …

JT Faith, CA Tryon, DJ Peppe, EJ Beverly… - Journal of Human …, 2015 - Elsevier
The opening and closing of the equatorial East African forest belt during the Quaternary is
thought to have influenced the biogeographic histories of early modern humans and fauna …

The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin

CA Tryon, JT Faith, DJ Peppe, EJ Beverly… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Late Pleistocene sedimentary, biogeochemical, and fossil data from the Lake Victoria basin
(the largest lake in Africa) suggest that its reduction or desiccation during periods of …

Nubian Levallois reduction strategies in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa

E Hallinan, M Shaw - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The Middle Stone Age record in southern Africa is recognising increasing diversity in lithic
technologies as research expands beyond the coastal-montane zone. New research in the …

Springs, palm groves, and the record of early hominins in Africa

D Barboni, GM Ashley, B Bourel, H Arráiz… - Review of palaeobotany …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hominins evolved in Africa during a period of overall regional cooling, drying, and
increasingly variable climate. Despite prevailing regional aridity since the mid-Miocene, data …

Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

ME Prendergast, J Miller, O Mwebi, E Ndiema… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Pleistocene (∼ 125–12 thousand years ago) record of eastern Africa is
critical for assessing the origin, evolution and history of human behavior. Faunal remains are …