African Origins
A researchers’ encounter on African Prehistory
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Paleoanthropology Africa
… classification of experimental bone surface modifications (BSM) through machine learning algorithms: a solution to the controversial use of BSM in paleoanthropology …
M Domínguez-Rodrigo – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2018
… to the controversial use of BSM in paleoanthropology? Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo1,2 … 1 Institute of Evolution in Africa (IDEA), University of Alcalá de Henares, Covarrubias 36, 28010 Madrid, Spain 2 Department …
[PDF] africanus and Paranthropus robustus
J Braga, J Dumoncel, B Duployer, C Tenailleau… – Excavation of the Kromdraai, in the …
… sites (South Africa), here set at ca 3.0–2.6 Ma, based on the combination of faunal evidence (McKee et al. 1995) and absolute dates obtained from sedimentary features securely placed in the stratigraphy of Sterkfontein …
Stone Age Africa
The Still Bay points of Apollo 11 Rock Shelter, Namibia: an inter-regional perspective
Lombard, M., Högberg, A. (2018). Azania. Article in Press