African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Quaternary Africa
[PDF] Orbital precession modulates interannual rainfall variability, as recorded in an Early Pleistocene speleothem
PJ Hopley, GP Weedon, CM Brierley, C Thrasivoulou… – Geology, 2018
… Holmgren, K., Lee-Thorp, JA, Cooper, GRI, Lundblad, K., Partridge, TC, Scott, L., Sithaldeen, R., Talma, AS, and Tyson, PD, 2003, Persistent millennial- scale climatic variability over the past 25,000 years in Southern Africa …
A partial Homo pelvis from the Early Pleistocene of Eritrea
AS Hammond, S Almécija, Y Libsekal, L Rook… – Journal of Human Evolution, 2018
… Homo erectus sl, a taxon known from as early as ∼1.9 Ma in Africa (Feibel et al., 1989, Gathogo and Brown, 2006, Ferring et al., 2011) and perhaps living until about 27 ka in Indonesia (Bartstra et al., 1988, Swisher et al …
Quaternary Africa
Description and analysis of three Homo naledi incudes from the Dinaledi Chamber, Rising Star cave (South Africa)
MC Elliott, R Quam, S Nalla, DJ de Ruiter, J Hawks… – Journal of Human Evolution, 2018
… Journal of Human Evolution. Description and analysis of three Homo naledi incudes from the Dinaledi Chamber, Rising Star cave (South Africa) … Abstract. This study describes three incudes recovered from the Dinaledi Chamber …
Radiocarbon dating reveals the timing of formation and development of pedogenic calcium carbonate concretions in Central Sudan during the Holocene
G Dal Sasso, A Zerboni, L Maritan, I Angelini… – … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018
… Holocene. Calcic soil horizon. Calcium carbonate concretions. Calcite. North Africa. Cathodoluminescence microscopy. Radiocarbon dating. Pedogenesis …late Pleistocene longitudinal river bars, at the limit of alluvial sediments …