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

Lithic industry Africa

Subsistence strategies throughout the African Middle Pleistocene: Faunal evidence for behavioral change and continuity across the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition

Geoff M. Smith, Karen Ruebens, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Teresa E. Steele. (2019). Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 127, Pages 1-20.

Quaternary Africa

A Least Cost Path Model for hominin dispersal routes out of the East African Rift region (Ethiopia) into the Levant

Amanuel Beyin, Justin Hall, C. Andrew Day. (2019). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 23, Pages 763-772.