African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Stone Age Africa
[HTML] Regional patterns of diachronic technological change in the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa
M Will, NJ Conard – PloS one, 2020
… Loading metrics. Open Access. Peer-reviewed. Research Article. Regional patterns of diachronic technological change in the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa. Manuel Will … Regional patterns of diachronic technological …
Palaeoanthropology Africa
On the Operation of Retouch in Southern Africa’s Early Middle Stone Age
CA O’Driscoll, A Mackay – Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2020
… Anatomical and genetic evidence places the origin of Homo sapiens in Africa around 315 ka (Richter et al. 2017). The approximately concordant emergence of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA Footnote 1 ) suggests linked biological …