African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
Stay up-to-date with fellow researchers, projects, excavations and events. African Origins is an on-line community of scientists active in the study of human evolution and its context in Africa, the where origins of humankind lay. Registered users can browse though current research projects, all kinds of specific materials as photographs, grey literature and other documentation; and of course showcase their own. Note that our policy is not to send regular unsolicited emails.
Latest publications
Stone Age Africa
Human Evolution, Archaeology and the South African Stone Age Landscape During the Last 100,000
S Wurz – The Geography of South Africa: Contemporary …, 2019
During the past 100,000 years the fluctuating climate that included two glacials and three interglacials resulted in a continuously changing South African landscape. The multitude of archaeological sites on the landscape shows that climate presented no …
Human evolution Africa
Progressive aridification in East Africa over the last half million years and implications for human evolution
RB Owen, VM Muiruri, TK Lowenstein, RW Renaut… – Proceedings of the National …, 2018
Evidence for Quaternary climate change in East Africa has been derived from outcrops on land and lake cores and from marine dust, leaf wax, and pollen records. These data have previously been used to evaluate the impact of climate change on …