Understanding the cause of late Quaternary mammal extinctions is the subject of intense
debate spanning the fields of archeology and paleontology. In the global context, the losses …

A distinct series of beach ridges marking the former shorelines of large inter-connected
lacustrine basins in the Kalahari can be clearly identified from Landsat imagery and Shuttle …

Africa's Middle Stone Age (MSA) may have lasted almost half a million years, but its earliest
expression is not yet well understood. The MSA is best known for innovations that appear in …

We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …

Backed microliths made on small flakes and blades are considered the hallmark of Later
Stone Age (LSA) industries of sub‐Saharan Africa. However, some early LSA microlithic …

Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental
and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging …

After several decades of research on the subject, we now know when the first livestock
reached southern Africa but the question of how they got there remains a contentious topic …

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 …

Birch tar production by Neanderthals—used for hafting tools—has been interpreted as one
of the earliest manifestations of modern cultural behavior. This is because birch tar …

Lithic technologies have been used to trace dispersals of early human populations within
and beyond Africa. Convergence in lithic systems has the potential to confound such …