In this review of the evidence for and against taxic diversity within the hominin clade, we
begin by looking at the logic and the history of simple “ladder‐like” interpretations of the …

An understanding of the age of the Acheulian and the transition to the Middle Stone Age in
southern Africa has been hampered by a lack of reliable dates for key sequences in the …

New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

In Africa, the scarcity of hominin remains found in direct association with stone tools has
hindered attempts to link Homo habilis and Homo erectus with particular lithic industries …

INTRODUCTION Drimolen is one of several ancient caves located in the Hominid Caves of
South Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) …

South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least
two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological …

The cave infills at Sterkfontein contain one of the richest assemblages of Australopithecus
fossils in the world, including the nearly complete skeleton StW 573 ('Little Foot'),,, in its …

Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer capping the
sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils. Uranium-lead dating of the …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

Abstract The Cradle of Humankind (Cradle) in South Africa preserves a rich collection of
fossil hominins representing Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo. The ages of these …