Abstract The Central African Middle Stone Age (MSA) is very poorly understood in
comparison to the higher-resolution records of East and southern Africa. Severe taphonomic …

Conventionally, the African continent has been partitioned in two evolutionary domains. One
of them, the rainforest, is home to apes and covers central and West Africa. The other one …

Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape,
have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. Not only are they primary …

La these de doctorat n! sumee ici a ete soutenue publiquement le vendredi 17 juin 2005 a
I'Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Le jury ayant juge Ia valeur du travail etait compose des …

Abstract Charles Darwin and Vasily Dokuchaev made early and important, but quite
different, contributions to pedogenic theory. Their major contributions were both written as …

Coarse-over-fine vertical texture contrasts (VTC) are common in soils and weathering
profiles in a variety of environmental settings, including many where inheritance or surficial …

Discovered in 1988 by R. Oslisly and B. Peyrot, Elarmékora is a high terrace that, today, is
situated 175 m above the Ogooué River in the historical complex of Elarmékora, attached to …

Reconstructions of the Equatorial forest in Central Africa fuel the debate on whether hunter-
gatherers at the end of the Pleistocene were capable of living in or off the forest prior to the …

Despite its strategic location within the continent, Central Africa is rarely integrated into the
reconstruction of population dynamics during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of Africa …

The African rainforest is considered a 'palaeontological desert', exemplified with the virtual
absence of ape fossils from the last 10 Ma. To overcome this deficiency of the fossil record …