[HTML][HTML] Direct dating of human fossils and the ever-changing story of human evolution

R Gruen, C Stringer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
This review is a follow up to Grün et al.(2006): Direct Dating of Human Fossils. Since that
time there has been progress on the experimental side of the geochronological analyses …

Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa

AIR Herries, JM Martin, AB Leece, JW Adams… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Drimolen is one of several ancient caves located in the Hominid Caves of
South Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) …

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

J Louys, P Roberts - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

Hominin site distributions and behaviours across the Mid-Pleistocene climate transition in China

SX Yang, JP Yue, X Zhou, M Storozum, FX Huan… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge about the Early and Middle Pleistocene hominin record of China is
steadily increasing owing to the on-going implementation of palaeoanthropological surveys …

The Southern African stone age sequence updated (II)

M Lombard, J Bradfield, MV Caruana… - The South African …, 2022 - JSTOR
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 …

Biochronology of South African hominin-bearing sites: A reassessment using cercopithecid primates

SR Frost, FJ White, HG Reda… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Despite recent advances in chronometric techniques (eg, Uranium-Lead [U-Pb], cosmogenic
nuclides, electron spin resonance spectroscopy [ESR]), considerable uncertainty remains …

Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species

JM Martin, AB Leece, S Neubauer, SE Baker… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Paranthropus robustus is a small-brained extinct hominin from South Africa characterized by
derived, robust craniodental morphology. The most complete known skull of this species is …

Dental data challenge the ubiquitous presence of Homo in the Cradle of Humankind

C Zanolli, TW Davies… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The origins of Homo, as well as the diversity and biogeographic distribution of early Homo
species, remain critical outstanding issues in paleoanthropology. Debates about the …

Do grazers equal grasslands? Strengthening paleoenvironmental inferences through analysis of present-day African mammals

KG Sokolowski, BF Codding, A Du, JT Faith - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Expanding grassy ecosystems through the late Cenozoic may have driven ecological and
evolutionary change in hominins and other African mammals. However, we lack a …

Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa

W Archer, D Presnyakova, V Aldeias… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
Patterns of so-called modern human behavior are increasingly well documented in an
abundance of Middle Stone Age archaeological sites across southern Africa. Contextualized …