The appearance of Oldowan sites ca. 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may reflect one of the most
important adaptive shifts in human evolution. Stone artifact manufacture, large mammal …

The past decade has seen the Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil hominin record enriched by
the addition of at least ten new taxa, including the Early Pleistocene, small-brained hominins …

The early Pleistocene colonization of temperate Eurasia by Homo erectus was not only a
significant biogeographic event but also a major evolutionary threshold. Dmanisi's rich …

East Africa has provided the earliest known evidence for Oldowan stone artifacts and
hominin-induced stone tool cutmarks dated to~ 2.6 million years (Ma) ago. The~ 1.8-million …

This paper focuses on the empirical evidence for the cognitive abilities of early hominins of
the Oldowan Industrial Complex (c.≥ 2.6 to 1.4 Mya) on the African continent. It profiles …

This paper examines the evidence for hominids outside East Africa during the Early
Pleistocene. Most attention has focused recently on the evidence for or against a late …

Paleontological fieldwork between 1998–2005 by the Eyasi Plateau Expedition at Laetoli
and nearby sites produced a large collection of proboscidean fossils from the early to mid …

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died
out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we …

Abstract Located within the Beni Fouda intramontane basin, the Oued Boucherit area
(Guelta Zerga, North East Algeria) hosts a unique succession of archaeological and …

Palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists have advanced a wide range of explanatory
narratives for the various movements of Homo erectus/Homo ergaster, and the first modern …