African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
Stay up-to-date with fellow researchers, projects, excavations and events. African Origins is an on-line community of scientists active in the study of human evolution and its context in Africa, the where origins of humankind lay. Registered users can browse though current research projects, all kinds of specific materials as photographs, grey literature and other documentation; and of course showcase their own. Note that our policy is not to send regular unsolicited emails.
Latest publications
Stone Age Africa
JS Oliver, TW Plummer, F Hertel, LC Bishop – Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
… from hominin brain and body enlargement, cognitive abilities, and dietary evolution, to range expansion and migration out of Africa (eg, Aiello … A recent analysis of FLK-Zinj bovid age frequencies indicated hominins practiced …
A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals
DM Avery – 2019
… that palaeontological work began in earnest (eg Broom 1909a, 1909b and Péringuey 1911) published seminal works on the Stone Ages of … algeriensis is of Oligocene rather than Eocene age, it would be the first material of this age recovered from southern Africa …
Human evolution Africa
CS Mongle, DS Strait, FE Grine – Journal of Human Evolution, 2019
… Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Elsevier. Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 131, June 2019, Pages 28-39. Journal of Human Evolution. Expanded character sampling underscores phylogenetic stability …