African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Human evolution Africa
Technological Origins: Primate Perspectives and Early Hominin Tool Use in Africa
S Carvalho, M Beardmore-Herd – Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2019
… Subscriber: Google Scholar Indexing; date: 13 March 2019. Technological Origins: Primate Perspectives and Early Hominin Tool Use in Africa. Summary and Keywords. The origin of technology is believed to have marked a major adaptive shift in human evolution …
Stone Age Africa
The Transition from Hunting–Gathering to Food Production in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia
JW Arthur, MC Curtis, KJW Arthur, M Coltorti… – African Archaeological …, 2019
… mode de vie agropastoral. Keywords Ethiopia . Gamo . Later Stone Age . Cave archaeology . Hunter and gatherer . Food production Archaeological Identification of Food Production in the Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa has …