African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Human evolution Africa
S Oestmo, MA Janssen, HC Cawthra – Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019
… For the most part these models focus on the change in raw materials at the onset of MIS 4 across South Africa (Oestmo, 2017) … In the mobility-linked variant the raw material availability covaries with changes in human mobility strategies …
SM Simeonoff – 2019
… extent environmental changes on the southern coast of South Africa influenced changes in Page 15. 3 … near both terrestrial and coastal resources makes it an ideal site to study human … regularly occupied, is crucial to …
FE Grine, J Lee-Thorp, S Blumenthal, M Sponheimer… – Dental Wear in Evolutionary …, 2020
… This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation of the USA, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, the National Research Foundation of South Africa, the College of Arts and Sciences …
Human evolution Africa
Patterns in the sand: A Pleistocene hominin signature along the South African coastline?
CW Helm, HC Cawthra, JC De Vynck, CJ Helm, R Rust… – Proceedings of the …, 2019
… The Cape south coast of South Africa boasts one of the richest Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological records in the world. Here coastal caves and rock shelters contain well-documented archives of early humans, including …
RM Cowling, AJ Potts, J Franklin, GF Midgley… – Quaternary Science …, 2019
… pioneering work of Compton (2011), which links PAP vegetation to the incidence of paleoarchives describing the region’s large mammal fauna and evidence of human evolution … Inserts show the location of South Africa (grey) …
[HTML] Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species
A Mounier, MM Lahr – Nature Communications, 2019
… of view: (1) the Multiregional Model of modern human origins implying the gradual evolution of global archaic hominin populations towards a modern human morphology over the course of the last 2 million years; 9,10 and …