The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa

Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)

(2020) Alastair Key et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena

(2020) Oshan Wedage et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago

(2020) Chris Clarkson et al.   Nature Communications

Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

(2020) Francesco d’Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

THE INTCAL20 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION CURVE (0–55 CAL kBP)

(2020) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Neural networks differentiate between Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages in eastern Africa

(2020) Matt Grove et al.   PLoS One

Carrying capacity, population density and the later Pleistocene expression of backed artefact manufacturing traditions in Africa

(2020) W. Archer   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

(2019) Götz Ossendorf et al.   SCIENCE

A new 44,000-year sequence from Asitau Kuru (Jerimalai), Timor-Leste, indicates long-term continuity in human behaviour

(2019) C. Shipton et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka

(2019) Oshan Wedage et al.   PLoS One

Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa

(2019) Patrick Roberts et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Gravettian weaponry: 23,500-year-old evidence of a composite barbed point from Les Prés de Laure (France)

(2018) Antonin Tomasso et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Early stage blunting causes rapid reductions in stone tool performance

(2018) Alastair Key et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania

(2018) Christian A. Tryon et al.   PLoS One

The oldest Stone Age occupation of coastal West Africa and its implications for modern human dispersals: New insight from Tiémassas

(2018) Khady Niang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The structure of the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa

(2018) J. Blinkhorn et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa

(2018) Alan L. Deino et al.   SCIENCE

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

(2018) Alison S. Brooks et al.   SCIENCE

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

(2018) Ceri Shipton et al.   Nature Communications

150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa

(2018) Henry F. Lamb et al.   Scientific Reports

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

The emergence, spread, and termination of the Early Later Stone Age event in South Africa and southern Namibia

(2017) C. Britt Bousman et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Reconstructing Asian faunal introductions to eastern Africa from multi-proxy biomolecular and archaeological datasets

(2017) Mary E. Prendergast et al.   PLoS One

A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania

(2016) Christian A. Tryon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reconsidering the MSA to LSA transition at Taforalt Cave (Morocco) in the light of new multi-proxy dating evidence

(2016) R.N.E. Barton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

(2016) Christopher Bronk Ramsey   RADIOCARBON

Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa

(2015) J. Tyler Faith et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Late Pleistocene age and archaeological context for the hominin calvaria from GvJm-22 (Lukenya Hill, Kenya)

(2015) Christian A. Tryon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Edge Length and Surface Area of a Blank: Experimental Assessment of Measures, Size Predictions and Utility

(2015) Tamara Dogandžić et al.   PLoS One

The formation of lithic assemblages

(2014) C. Michael Barton et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

First technological comparison of Southern African Howiesons Poort and South Asian Microlithic industries: An exploration of inter-regional variability in microlithic assemblages

(2014) Laura Lewis et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Cultural change or continuity in the late MSA/Early LSA of southeastern Ethiopia? The site of Goda Buticha, Dire Dawa area

(2014) David Pleurdeau et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Measuring core reduction using 3D flake scar density: a test case of changing core reduction at Klasies River Mouth, South Africa

(2013) Chris Clarkson   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)

(2013) Katerina Douka et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Continuity of Microblade Technology in the Indian Subcontinent Since 45 ka: Implications for the Dispersal of Modern Humans

(2013) Sheila Mishra et al.   PLoS One

Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka

(2013) C. S. Lane et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic and archaeological perspectives on the initial modern human colonization of southern Asia

(2013) P. Mellars et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An empirical test of the relative frequency of bipolar reduction in Beds VI, V, and III at Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania: implications for the East African Middle to Late Stone Age transition

(2012) Metin I. Eren et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains

(2012) Luke A. Gliganic et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: A synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000–30,000 years ago

(2012) Margaret Whiting Blome et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa

(2012) P. Villa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

(2012) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vegetation, climate and fire-dynamics in East Africa inferred from the Maundi crater pollen record from Mt Kilimanjaro during the last glacial–interglacial cycle

(2012) Lisa Schüler et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Quartz-tipped arrows older than 60 ka: further use-trace evidence from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2011) Marlize Lombard   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Catastrophic Drought in the Afro-Asian Monsoon Region During Heinrich Event 1

(2011) J. C. Stager et al.   SCIENCE

The seismic-stratigraphic record of lake-level fluctuations in Lake Challa: Hydrological stability and change in equatorial East Africa over the last 140kyr

(2010) J. Moernaut et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya

(2010) Christian A. Tryon et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior: perspectives from cave PP13B, Pinnacle Point, South Africa

(2010) Antonieta Jerardino et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Late Pleistocene paleohydrography and diatom paleoecology of the central basin of Lake Malawi, Africa

(2010) Jeffery R. Stone et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Howiesons Poort and MSA III at Klasies River main site, Cave 1A

(2009) P. Villa et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago

(2009) M. Petraglia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

(2009) A. Powell et al.   SCIENCE

Hunting with Howiesons Poort segments: pilot experimental study and the functional interpretation of archaeological tools

(2008) Marlize Lombard et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Middle Stone Age (MSA) site distributions in eastern Africa and their relationship to Quaternary environmental change, refugia and the evolution of Homo sapiens

(2008) L BASELL   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal

(2008) Z. Jacobs et al.   SCIENCE