Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA/LSA) transition is a prominent feature of the
African archeological record that began in some places~ 30,000–60,000 years ago …

It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

The ecological adaptations that stimulated the dispersal and technological strategies of our
species during the Late Pleistocene remain hotly disputed, with some influential theories …

Quantitative, well-dated, local paleoenvironmental records are necessary to 1) evaluate
responses to regional to global-scale climate change at the scale of human habitats, and 2) …

Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early
modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre …

Abstract The African Middle Pleistocene (781–126 ka) is a key period for human evolution,
witnessing both the origin of the modern human lineage and the lithic turnover from Earlier …

Although modern humans left Africa multiple times over 100,000 years ago, those broadly
ancestral to non-Africans dispersed less than 100,000 years ago. Most models hold that …

We report on the Late Pleistocene (36–12 ka) mammals from Kibogo in the Nyanza Rift of
western Kenya, providing (1) a systematic description of the mammal remains,(2) an …

Southern Africa is characterized by the development of varied Middle and Later Stone Age
techno-complexes and behaviors against a backdrop of complex climatic conditions during …

Site-specific environmental and climatic records are crucial to our understanding of human
behavior and cognition during the African Middle Stone Age. This is particularly true of the …