There is great uncertainty over the timing and magnitude of the termination of the African
Humid Period (AHP). Spanning from the early to middle Holocene, the AHP was a period of …

Our understanding of the impact of climate-driven environmental change on prehistoric
human populations is hampered by the scarcity of continuous paleoenvironmental records …

The application of radiocarbon dating to determine the geochronology of archaeological
sites is ubiquitous across the African continent. Accelerator mass spectrometry has made …

Hydrological regimes are significant drivers of fisheries production in many African Lakes
due to their influence on fish habitat and food availability, breeding success, and …

As the pace of global climate change accelerates, residents of the arid and semi-arid lands
of northern Kenya face significant obstacles to maintain viable communities. Colonial and …

Abstract The Holocene of eastern Africa saw extreme climatic fluctuations between hyper-
humid and arid conditions, which manifested differently across the region's lake basins …

Zooarchaeological evidence reflects cattle's central role among pastoral livestock for
millennia in the once-green Sahara. However, zooarchaeological evidence attest to two …

In this study, new approaches are developed for measuring and understanding the reactivity
of East African amplifier lakes and the societies that occupied their margins to African …

Background With a surface area of∼ 6500 km 2, present-day Lake Turkana is one of the
largest lakes in Africa. It occupies the topographically lowest part of the East African Rift …

We report a study in which we systematically reviewed the recent literature dealing with
human-environment interaction in prehistory. We first identified the 165 most highly cited …