African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Stone Age Africa
[PDF] An agent-based approach to weighted decision making in the spatially and temporally variable South African Palaeoscape
CD Wren, C Atwater, K Hill, M Janssen, J de Vynck… – SocArXiv. February, 2019
… Discussion In this paper we have developed an agent-based model of the foraging system of Middle Stone Age coastal South Africa near the archaeological sites of Pinnacle Point, Blombos Cave, and Klasies River Mouth. The …
Paleontology Africa
Proboscidea from Kanapoi, Kenya
WJ Sanders – Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
… Africa—“Afro-Arabia” for the majority of the Cenozoic—hosted most of the fundamental episodes of proboscidean evolution (Sanders et al., 2010), starting with the early Paleogene derivation of the Order (Gheerbrant et al …