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.
Ndiaye M +7 more
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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.
Harvati K +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.
Grove M, Blinkhorn J.
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Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 The transition from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA) in South Africa was not associated with the appearance of anatomically modern humans and the extinction of Neandertals, as in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Europe.
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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]
Sci RepSediment 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.
Ecker M +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]
Sci Rep, 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 ...
Hopper C, Dunne J, Dewar G, Evershed RP.
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Backed Pieces and Their Variability in the Later Stone Age of the Horn of Africa
African Archaeological Review, 2020 Backed pieces became widespread in the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene and are part of the classic definitions for the Later Stone Age in many parts of Africa. However, the association of backed pieces with Later Stone Age is not clear in the Horn of Africa. These pieces are present in both Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA) contexts.
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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.
Angue Zogo MJ +6 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.
Tryon CA +9 more
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78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 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 ...
Shipton C +27 more
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