An understanding of the age of the Acheulian and the transition to the Middle Stone Age in
southern Africa has been hampered by a lack of reliable dates for key sequences in the …

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 …

New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

INTRODUCTION Drimolen is one of several ancient caves located in the Hominid Caves of
South Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) …

Sterkfontein is the most prolific single source of Australopithecus fossils, the vast majority of
which were recovered from Member 4, a cave breccia now exposed by erosion and …

We describe the physical context of the Dinaledi Chamber within the Rising Star cave, South
Africa, which contains the fossils of Homo naledi. Approximately 1550 specimens of hominin …

Newly exposed cave sediments at the Malapa site include a flowstone layer capping the
sedimentary unit containing the Australopithecus sediba fossils. Uranium-lead dating of the …

The distinctly human ability for forceful precision and power “squeeze” gripping is linked to
two key evolutionary transitions in hand use: a reduction in arboreal climbing and the …

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 …

Abstract The Cradle of Humankind (Cradle) in South Africa preserves a rich collection of
fossil hominins representing Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo. The ages of these …