The Holocene climate history of Southern Africa remains inconclusive despite the increasing
number of proxy records from the region. This might be related to the diversity of proxy …

Although climate change is considered to have been a large-scale driver of African human
evolution, landscape-scale shifts in ecological resources that may have shaped novel …

The earliest evidence of agriculture in the Horn of Africa dates to the Pre-Aksumite period
(ca. 1600 BCE). Domesticated C3 cereals are considered to have been introduced from the …

Hominins evolved in Africa during a period of overall regional cooling, drying, and
increasingly variable climate. Despite prevailing regional aridity since the mid-Miocene, data …

Phytoliths, microscopic plant silica bodies, are often preserved in modern and fossil soils
and sediment, as well as in archaeological contexts. They record unique characteristics of …

To identify the phytolith signal of lacustrine environments, which are prone to preserving
faunal remains including hominins, we analyzed the phytolith content of 46 grass and sedge …

Grass short cell phytoliths (GSCP) are a valuable tool for the reconstruction of former grass-
dominated ecosystems, especially in Africa. GSCP are highly diverse and most of them …

The most common grass phytoliths from “Zambezian” miombos are described here for the
first time. Their potential for long term preservation in sediments makes them a useful tool in …

Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) was first domesticated in China and dispersed
westward via Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC, reaching Europe in the 2nd millennium …

The temporal proximity of the∼ 74 ka Toba supereruption to a putative 100–50 ka human
population bottleneck is the basis for the volcanic winter/weak Garden of Eden hypothesis …