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

The oldest Oldowan tool sites, from around 2.6 million years ago, have previously been
confined to Ethiopia's Afar Triangle. We describe sites at Nyayanga, Kenya, dated to 3.032 …

Questions about the timing, frequency, resource yield, and behavioral and biological
implications of large animal carcass acquisition by early hominins have been a part of the …

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 …

Our understanding of the evolutionary history of primates is undergoing continual revision
due to ongoing genome sequencing efforts. Bolstered by growing fossil evidence, these …

We present the results of a combined Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) and Luminescence
dating study for the lowermost stratigraphic unit (TD1) of the palaeoanthropological site of …

Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations,
habitat diversification, and dispersal. However, there is a dearth of information to assess …

Recent discoveries constrain the presence of hominins in North Africa since ca. 2.4 Ma and
in China since ca. 2.1 Ma, providing a new temporal framework for the earliest migration out …

Simple Summary The family Equidae enjoys an iconic evolutionary record, especially the
genus Equus which is actively investigated by both paleontologists and molecular biologists …

The onset of the Acheulean, marked by the emergence of large cutting tools (LCTs), is
considered a major technological advance in the Early Stone Age and a key turning point in …