A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco

Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

(2020) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than 60 000 years ago: Results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point from Klasies River Main site, South Africa

(2020) Justin Bradfield et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A 1.4-million-year-old bone handaxe from Konso, Ethiopia, shows advanced tool technology in the early Acheulean

(2020) Katsuhiro Sano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics

(2020) Michelle C. Langley et al.   Science Advances

A method for the taphonomic assessment of bone tools using 3D surface texture analysis of bone microtopography

(2020) Naomi L. Martisius et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

The first bone tools from Kromdraai and stone tools from Drimolen, and the place of bone tools in the South African Earlier Stone Age

(2018) Rhiannon C. Stammers et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

(2018) Eleanor M.L. Scerri et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

90,000 year-old specialised bone technology in the Aterian Middle Stone Age of North Africa

(2018) Abdeljalil Bouzouggar et al.   PLoS One

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

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age

(2017) Daniel Richter et al.   NATURE

Characterizing the Lower Paleolithic bone industry from Schöningen 12 II: A multi-proxy study

(2015) Marie-Anne Julien et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

(2015) Paul HGM Dirks et al.   eLife

Deciphering site formation processes through soil micromorphology at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco

(2014) Vera Aldeias et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Wild cats and cut marks: Exploitation of Felis silvestris in the Mesolithic of Galgenbühel/Dos de la Forca (South Tyrol, Italy)

(2014) Jacopo Crezzini et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb

(2013) Harold L. Dibble et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

How confident are we in the chronology of the transition between Howieson's Poort and Still Bay?

(2013) Guillaume Guérin et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

First Partial Skeleton of a 1.34-Million-Year-Old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

(2013) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.   PLoS One

Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe

(2013) M. Soressi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The recognition of a new type of bone tools in Early Aurignacian assemblages: implications for understanding the appearance of osseous technology in Europe

(2012) Elise Tartar   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave

(2012) Francesco d'Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa

(2012) Zenobia Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: Implications for Late Pleistocene human–environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa

(2012) Zenobia Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

40Ar/39Ar dating of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and the chronology of early Pleistocene climate change

(2012) Alan L. Deino   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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

Taphonomy of Palaeloxodon antiquus at Castel di Guido (Rome, Italy): Proboscidean carcass exploitation in the Lower Palaeolithic

(2012) Daniela Saccà   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers (‘Smugglers’ Cave’), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels

(2011) Z. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Shape Variation in Aterian Tanged Tools and the Origins of Projectile Technology: A Morphometric Perspective on Stone Tool Function

(2011) Radu Iovita   PLoS One

Origin of Clothing Lice Indicates Early Clothing Use by Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa

(2010) M. A. Toups et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2010) Vincent Mourre et al.   SCIENCE

A new protocol to differentiate trampling marks from butchery cut marks

(2009) M. Domínguez-Rodrigo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools

(2009) Francesco d'Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits

(2008) Zenobia Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

(2008) Lucinda Backwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE