The Later Stone Age calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: morphology and chronology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: In recent years the Later Stone Age has been redated to a much deeper time depth than previously thought. At the same time, human remains from this time period are scarce in Africa, and even rarer in West Africa.
Katerina Harvati +5 more
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Neural networks differentiate between Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages in eastern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The Middle to Later Stone Age transition marks a major change in how Late Pleistocene African populations produced and used stone tool kits, but is manifest in various ways, places and times across the continent.
Matt Grove, James Blinkhorn
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Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe understanding of cultural dynamics at work at the end of the Final Pleistocene in West Africa suffers from a significant lack of excavated and dated sites, particularly in the Sahelian and Sudanian ecozones.
Matar Ndiaye +7 more
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A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSediment biomarkers are important archives of regional, and global climate signatures, particularly in regions which lack continuous terrestrial archives such as the semi-arid deserts of Africa.
Michaela Ecker +5 more
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Chemical evidence for milk, meat, and marine resource processing in Later Stone Age pots from Namaqualand, South Africa [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The subsistence practices of Later Stone Age (LSA) foragers and herders living in Namaqualand South Africa are often difficult to differentiate based on their archaeological signatures but characterizing their dietary choices is vital to understand the ...
Courtneay Hopper +3 more
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Pahon Cave, Gabon: New insights into the Later Stone Age in the African rainforest. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAlthough the Later Stone Age as a distinctive techno-cultural phase has disappeared, forager groups in the African rainforest persist today. However, their origins remain poorly understood.
Marie-Josée Angue Zogo +6 more
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78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Most of the archaeological record of the Middle to Later Stone Age transition comes from southern Africa. Here, Shipton et al. describe the new site Panga ya Saidi on the coast of Kenya that covers the last 78,000 years and shows gradual cultural and ...
Ceri Shipton +27 more
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Expansion of forest cover and coeval shifts in Later Stone Age land-use at Taforalt and Rhafas Caves, Morocco, as inferred from carbon isotopes in ungulate tooth enamel. [PDF]
PLoS ONELater Stone Age (Iberomaurusian) hunter-gatherer groups in northwestern Africa appear to have experienced a major reorganization of land-use strategies and settlement dynamics around 15-13 cal ka BP, which broadly corresponds to the globally recognized ...
Kayla B Worthey +7 more
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Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The archaeology of East Africa during the last ~65,000 years plays a central role in debates about the origins and dispersal of modern humans, Homo sapiens.
Christian A Tryon +9 more
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Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 The originally published version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 3, whereby an additional unrelated graph was overlaid on top of the magnetic susceptibility plot.
Ceri Shipton +27 more
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