African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Latest publications
Paleoanthropology Africa
Brain size growth in Australopithecus
Z Cofran – Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
… Previous assessments of endocranial size have noted that fossils of australopith infants and juveniles have proportional sizes within African ape ranges (Alemseged et al., 2006, Zollikofer and Ponce de León, 2013). According to Alemseged et al …
Stone Age Africa
[PDF] Personal Ornaments in Early Prehistory A Review of Shells as Personal Ornamentation during the African Middle Stone Age
TE STEELE, E ÁLVAREZ-FERNÁNDEZ… – PaleoAnthropology, 2019
… A number of Middle Stone Age (MSA) assemblages in northern Africa, as well as a few in South Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, preserve small mollusk shells, most notably estuarine and marine members of the sub …
Old stones’ song—second verse: use-wear analysis of rhyolite and fenetized andesite artifacts from the Oldowan lithic industry of Kanjera South, Kenya
C Lemorini, LC Bishop, TW Plummer, DR Braun… – Archaeological and …, 2019
… Data assembled so far suggest that tools fashioned from non-local and local stone were, with one possible exception, used to process … and the suid Metridiochoerus andrewsi suggest a minimum age of 1.7 Ma for the sediments …