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A Critical Inventory and Associated Chronology of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The study of human evolution and cultural patterns relies on empirical evidence provided by the archaeological record. Accessing dependable archaeological data from scholarly publications can often be challenging due to the variability in site documentation and the diversity of academic practices in publication processes.
Boisard, Solène, Ben Arous, Eslem
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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 One
Later 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 ...
Worthey KB, Fernandez P, Turner E, Steele TE, Humphrey L, Barton RNE, Hublin JJ, Bouzouggar A.   +7 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]

Nat Commun, 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.
Shipton C, Roberts P, Archer W, Armitage SJ, Bita C, Blinkhorn J, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Crowther A, Curtis R, Errico F, Douka K, Faulkner P, Groucutt HS, Helm R, Herries AIR, Jembe S, Kourampas N, Lee-Thorp J, Marchant R, Mercader J, Marti AP, Prendergast ME, Rowson B, Tengeza A, Tibesasa R, White TS, Petraglia MD, Boivin N.   +27 more
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Correction: The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology

PLoS One, 2013
Katerina Harvati, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Maxime Aubert, Philip Allsworth-Jones, Caleb Adebayo Folorunso   +5 more
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A preliminary report of the excavation at Spitzkloof D rockshelter, Namaqualand, South Africa

Southern African Field Archaeology, 2023
This paper describes the first excavations of Spitzkloof D rockshelter located in the semi-arid desert of northern Namaqualand, South Africa. The site is in a dry river valley 30 km south of the Orange River, which currently acts as a lifeline for ...
Courtneay Hopper, Genevieve Dewar
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Coastal adaptations on the eastern seaboard of South Africa during the Pleistocene and Holocene? Current evidence and future perspectives from archaeology and marine geology

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The use of marine resources and the settlement of coastal settlements may have influenced the bio-cultural evolution and dispersal of Pleistocene Homo sapiens in Africa.
Manuel Will, Gregor D. Bader, Christian Sommer, Andrew Cooper, Andrew Cooper, Andrew Green, Andrew Green   +6 more
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Maternal Relationships among Ancient and Modern Southern African Sheep: Newly Discovered Mitochondrial Haplogroups

Biology, 2022
We investigated the genetic diversity and historic relationships among southern African sheep as well as the relationships between them and sheep outside the continent by sourcing both archaeological and modern sheep samples. Archaeological sheep samples
K. Ann Horsburgh, Devri B. Beckett, Anna L. Gosling   +2 more
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Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14–11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa

South African Journal of Science, 2020
Understanding how hunter-gatherers adapted to the marked environmental changes of the last glacialinterglacial transition (~18 to 11.7 ka cal. BP) remains a key question for archaeologists.
Emmanuel Discamps, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Karen L. van Niekerk   +2 more
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Systematic Ancient DNA Species Identification Fails to Find Late Holocene Domesticated Cattle in Southern Africa

Biology, 2020
Establishing robust temporal control of the arrival of domesticated stock and the associated husbandry skills and lifeways in Southern Africa remains frustrated by the osteological similarities between domestic stock and wild endemic fauna. We report the
K. Ann Horsburgh, Anna L. Gosling
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Miniaturization and abstraction in the Later Stone Age

Biological Theory, 2022
This paper was submitted in its current form to Biological Theory in June 2021. It was returned with a request for a major revisions in October 2021, but unfortunately I was not able to work on it further due to teaching and other research commitments, and have now run out of time altogether.
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