African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Latest publications
Atapuerca
Middle Pleistocene to recent diatoms and stratigraphy of the Magadi Basin, south Kenya Rift
VM Muiruri, RB Owen, G de Cort, RW Renaut… – Journal of Paleolimnology
Two cores were recovered from the Lake Magadi and Nasikie Engida Basins in the south Kenya Rift. Core MAG14-2A (194 m) contains a middle Pleistocene t.
Quaternary Africa
Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene
SE ML, N Khady, I Candy, J Blinkhorn, W Mills… – Scientific Reports (Nature …
… Sudanian Zone of Northeast Nigeria. Quat. Res. 58, 73–83 (2002). 45. Miller, CS & Gosling, WD Quaternary forest associations in lowland tropical West Africa. Quat. Sci. Rev. 84, 7–25 (2014). 46. Lézine, AM, Izumi, K., Kageyama …