Rethinking the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in southern Africa - A perspective from the highveld of Eswatini

Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago

(2020) Lyn Wadley et al.   SCIENCE

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

Nubian Levallois reduction strategies in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa

(2020) Emily Hallinan et al.   PLoS One

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

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

The MIS5 Pietersburg at ‘28’ Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa

(2018) Guillaume Porraz et al.   PLoS One

Technological variability at Sibudu Cave: The end of Howiesons Poort and reduced mobility strategies after 62,000 years ago

(2017) Paloma de la Peña et al.   PLoS One

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

Late Stone Age human remains from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo): New insights on Late Pleistocene modern human diversity in Africa

(2016) I. Crevecoeur et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The shaping of human diversity: filters, boundaries and transitions

(2016) Marta Mirazón Lahr   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Contextual approaches to studying unretouched bladelets: A late Pleistocene case study at Sehonghong Rockshelter, Lesotho

(2016) Justin Pargeter et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

West African Palaeolithic history: New archaeological and chronostratigraphic data from the Falémé valley, eastern Senegal

(2016) B. Chevrier et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Examining the Causes and Consequences of Short-Term Behavioral Change during the Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

(2015) Nicholas J. Conard et al.   PLoS One

Evolution in leaps: The punctuated accumulation and loss of cultural innovations

(2015) Oren Kolodny et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Implications of Nubian-Like Core Reduction Systems in Southern Africa for the Identification of Early Modern Human Dispersals

(2015) Manuel Will et al.   PLoS One

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

Characterizing the Late Pleistocene MSA Lithic Technology of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2014) Manuel Will et al.   PLoS One

Quartz Knapping Strategies in the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

(2014) Paloma de la Peña et al.   PLoS One

Putslaagte 1 (PL1), the Doring River, and the later Middle Stone Age in southern Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone

(2014) Alex Mackay et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Sink the Mousterian? Named stone tool industries (NASTIES) as obstacles to investigating hominin evolutionary relationships in the Later Middle Paleolithic Levant

(2014) John J. Shea   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

Experimental evidence for the influence of group size on cultural complexity

(2013) Maxime Derex et al.   NATURE

Pleistocene Homo and the updated Stone Age sequence of South Africa

(2013) Gerrit Dusseldorp et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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

Thinking through the Middle Stone Age of sub-Saharan Africa

(2012) Marlize Lombard   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

(2012) Julio Mercader et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho

(2011) Brian A. Stewart et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2011) C. S. Henshilwood et al.   SCIENCE

South African palaeoenvironments during marine oxygen isotope stage 4: a context for the Howiesons Poort and Still Bay industries

(2010) Brian M. Chase   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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

Correcting temporal frequency distributions for taphonomic bias

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

Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa

(2009) L. Wadley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa

(2008) Alex Mackay et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa

(2008) Francesco d'Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A Segment is not a Monolith: evidence from the Howiesons Poort of Sibudu, South Africa

(2008) Lyn Wadley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

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

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

(2008) Z. Jacobs et al.   SCIENCE