Ecological risk, demography and technological complexity in the Late Pleistocene of northern Malawi: implications for geographical patterning in the Middle Stone Age

Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa

(2017) David K. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The earliest long-distance obsidian transport: Evidence from the ∼200 ka Middle Stone Age Sibilo School Road Site, Baringo, Kenya

(2017) Nick Blegen   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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

(2017) Daniel Richter et al.   NATURE

A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods

(2017) Katharine M. Grant et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Across the Gap: Geochronological and Sedimentological Analyses from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sequence of Goda Buticha, Southeastern Ethiopia

(2017) Chantal Tribolo et al.   PLoS One

Model-based analyses of whole-genome data reveal a complex evolutionary history involving archaic introgression in Central African Pygmies

(2016) PingHsun Hsieh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Going the distance: Mapping mobility in the Kalahari Desert during the Middle Stone Age through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts

(2016) David J. Nash et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

What is Still Bay? Human biogeography and bifacial point variability

(2016) Will Archer et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The empirical case against the ‘demographic turn’ in Palaeolithic archaeology

(2016) Mark Collard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The transition to foraging for dense and predictable resources and its impact on the evolution of modern humans

(2016) Curtis W. Marean   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmental change explains cichlid adaptive radiation at Lake Malawi over the past 1.2 million years

(2016) Sarah J. Ivory et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

(2016) Maxime Derex et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Middle and Late Stone Age of the Niassa region, northern Mozambique. Preliminary results

(2016) Nuno Bicho et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Optimal adjustment or cultural backwardness? New data on the latest Levallois industries in the Nile Valley

(2016) Piotr Osypiński et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

An evolutionary perspective on coastal adaptations by modern humans during the Middle Stone Age of Africa

(2016) Manuel Will et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Game-Changing Innovations: How Culture Can Change the Parameters of Its Own Evolution and Induce Abrupt Cultural Shifts

(2016) Oren Kolodny et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Early Evidence for the Extensive Heat Treatment of Silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (Layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa

(2016) Anne Delagnes et al.   PLoS One

The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies

(2015) Sylvain Soriano et al.   PLoS One

Ochre fingerprints: Distinguishing among Malawian mineral pigment sources with Homogenized Ochre Chip LA-ICPMS

(2014) A. M. Zipkin et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Renewed Geoarchaeological Investigations of Mwanganda's Village (Elephant Butchery Site), Karonga, Malawi

(2014) David K. Wright et al.   GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the Howiesons Poort layers

(2014) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Coalescence and fragmentation in the late Pleistocene archaeology of southernmost Africa

(2014) Alex Mackay et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Radiometrically dated ostrich eggshell beads from the Middle and Later Stone Age of Magubike Rockshelter, southern Tanzania

(2014) Jennifer Midori Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia

(2014) Curtis W. Marean   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Nutrition, modernity and the archaeological record: Coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers on the western Cape coast of South Africa

(2014) Katharine Kyriacou et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Chronological constraints on Pleistocene sapropel depositions from high-resolution geochemical records of ODP Sites 967 and 968

(2014) T.Y.M. Konijnendijk et al.   NEWSLETTERS ON STRATIGRAPHY

Assessing the Accidental Versus Deliberate Colour Modification of Shell Beads: a Case Study on PerforatedNassarius kraussianusfrom Blombos Cave Middle Stone Age levels

(2013) F. d'Errico et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Demography and the demise of Neandertals: A comment on ‘Tenfold population increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-modern human transition’

(2013) Tamara Dogandžić et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Provenancing of silcrete raw materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age

(2013) David J. Nash et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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

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

Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa

(2013) J. Tyler Faith   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity

(2013) Maxime Derex et al.   NATURE

Population Size and Cultural Evolution in Nonindustrial Food-Producing Societies

(2013) Mark Collard et al.   PLoS One

Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic Occupations around Mundafan Palaeolake, Saudi Arabia: Implications for Climate Change and Human Dispersals

(2013) Rémy Crassard et al.   PLoS One

Earliest Stone-Tipped Projectiles from the Ethiopian Rift Date to >279,000 Years Ago

(2013) Yonatan Sahle et al.   PLoS One

The First Modern Human Dispersals across Africa

(2013) Teresa Rito et al.   PLoS One

Sociality influences cultural complexity

(2013) M. Muthukrishna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chronological and behavioral contexts of the earliest Middle Stone Age in the Gademotta Formation, Main Ethiopian Rift

(2013) Yonatan Sahle et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Microliths in the Middle and Later Stone Age of eastern Africa: New data from Porc-Epic and Goda Buticha cave sites, Ethiopia

(2013) Alice Leplongeon   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Development of Middle Stone Age innovation linked to rapid climate change

(2013) Martin Ziegler et al.   Nature Communications

Length of Growing Period over Africa: Variability and Trends from 30 Years of NDVI Time Series

(2013) Anton Vrieling et al.   Remote Sensing

Blade production ∼500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: support for a multiple origins hypothesis for early Middle Pleistocene blade technologies

(2012) Jayne Wilkins et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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

Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age: temperature induced transformations of silcrete and their technological implications

(2012) Patrick Schmidt 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

Why Levallois? A Morphometric Comparison of Experimental ‘Preferential’ Levallois Flakes versus Debitage Flakes

(2012) Metin I. Eren et al.   PLoS One

Thinking through the Middle Stone Age of sub-Saharan Africa

(2012) Marlize Lombard   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals

(2012) Steven A. Brandt et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Aterian and its place in the North African Middle Stone Age

(2012) Eleanor M.L. Scerri   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Cosmogenic nuclide age constraints on Middle Stone Age lithics from Niassa, Mozambique

(2012) Julio Mercader et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology

(2012) J. Wilkins et al.   SCIENCE

Human Evolution Out of Africa: The Role of Refugia and Climate Change

(2012) J. R. Stewart et al.   SCIENCE

THE EVOLUTION OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

(2011) THOMAS E. CURRIE et al.   ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

What drives the evolution of hunter-gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest

(2011) M. Collard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stone toolmaking and the evolution of human culture and cognition

(2011) D. Stout   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

(2011) F. d'Errico et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variable Cultural Acquisition Costs Constrain Cumulative Cultural Evolution

(2011) Alex Mesoudi   PLoS One

The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology

(2011) Katerina Harvati et al.   PLoS One

Renewed investigations into the Middle Stone Age of northern Malawi

(2011) Jessica C. Thompson et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

Prepared core reduction at the site of Kudu Koppie in northern South Africa: temporal patterns across the Earlier and Middle Stone Age boundary

(2010) J. Wilkins et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Nubian Complex strategies in the Egyptian high desert

(2010) Deborah I. Olszewski et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Middle and late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age lithic technology from Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)

(2010) Erin Thompson 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

Scientific drilling in the Great Rift Valley: The 2005 Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project — An overview of the past 145,000years of climate variability in Southern Hemisphere East Africa

(2010) C.A. Scholz et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Modeling Effects of Local Extinctions on Culture Change and Diversity in the Paleolithic

(2010) L. S. Premo et al.   PLoS One

A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa

(2010) P.-J. Texier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania

(2010) M. A. Kline et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) Vincent Mourre et al.   SCIENCE

The global distribution of net primary production: resolving the paradox

(2009) Michael A. Huston et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Correcting temporal frequency distributions for taphonomic bias

(2009) Todd A. Surovell et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

New radiometric ages for the Fauresmith industry from Kathu Pan, southern Africa: Implications for the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition

(2009) Naomi Porat et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Initial excavation and dating of Ngalue Cave: A Middle Stone Age site along the Niassa Rift, Mozambique

(2009) Julio Mercader et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

(2009) C. Tennie et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

(2009) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

(2009) G. Kier 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

Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

(2009) K. S. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul

(2008) Phillip J. Habgood et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Beyond existence and aiming outside the laboratory: estimating frequency-dependent and pay-off-biased social learning strategies

(2008) R. McElreath et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

(2008) J. E. Tierney et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Z. Jacobs et al.   SCIENCE