African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Palaeontology Africa
Geochronology and physical context of Oldowan site formation at Kanjera South, Kenya
PW DITCHFIELD, E Whitfield, T Vincent, T Plummer… – Geological Magazine
… Although Oldowan sites are known of from c. 2.6– 1.7 Ma in East, South and North Africa and in Georgia (Plummer, 2004), our understanding of the behavioural complexes leading to site formation remains rudiment- ary at best …
Stone Age Africa
An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa
CS Henshilwood, F d’Errico, KL van Niekerk, L Dayet… – Nature, 2018
… Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa. Science 295, 1278–1280 (2002) … Henshilwood, C., d’Errico, F., Vanhaeren, M., van Niekerk, K. & Jacobs, Z. Middle Stone Age shell beads from South Africa. Science 304, 404 (2004) …
Identification of degraded bone and tooth splinters from arid environments using palaeoproteomics
L Le Meillour, A Zazzo, J Lesur, S Cersoy, A Marie… – Palaeogeography …, 2018
… Despite the increasing number of collected information, no study has ever focused on the characterization of Later Stone Age fauna proteins originating from tropical zones in Africa. To our knowledge, only two papers rely on …