Late Quaternary climate variability in the southern African subtropics is still only poorly
resolved, with significant complexity and apparent contradictions in the regional dataset. To …

Proxy records from across the Southern Hemisphere show significant local to regional scale
variability in climatic and environmental conditions during late Marine Isotope Stage 3 and …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

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 …

Over the last two decades, red ochre has played a pivotal role in discussions about the
cognitive and cultural evolution of early modern humans during the African Middle Stone …

Abstract Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies first appear in the archaeological records of
northern, eastern and southern Africa during the Middle Pleistocene epoch. The absence of …

This paper provides an interpretation of the chronology of the Early Later Stone Age (Early
LSA) in South Africa and Southern Namibia. The Early LSA tradition first appears in Africa at …

Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa
documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the end of the Later Stone Age …

In the past few decades, a diverse array of research has emphasized the precocity of
technically advanced and symbolic practices occurring during the southern African Middle …

In this paper, we present a revised stratigraphy and results of preliminary analyses of the
archaeological material from Mwulu's Cave. This arises from two excavation campaigns …