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Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago

Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania is a key site for understanding early human evolution. Here, the authors report a multiproxy dataset from the Western basin of Oldupai Gorge dating to 2 million years ago, enabling the in situ comparison of lithic assemblages, paleoenvironments and hominin behavioral adaptability.

Julio Mercader
Pam Akuku
Michael Petraglia
ResearchOpen Access07 Jan 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-15
Earliest known human burial in Africa

The earliest known human burial in Africa, that of a young child, is dated to around 78,000 years ago.

María Martinón-Torres
Francesco d’Errico
Michael D. Petraglia
Research05 May 2021
Nature

Volume: 593, P: 95-100
78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

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 technological change in the Late Pleistocene.

Ceri Shipton
Patrick Roberts
Nicole Boivin
ResearchOpen Access09 May 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-8
Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Ceri Shipton
Patrick Roberts
Nicole Boivin
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access05 Jun 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-2
Microbotanical residues for the study of early hominin tools

Julio Mercader
George Belev
Andreu Ollé
ResearchOpen Access22 Feb 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-12
Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest

Bleasdale et al. examine the introduction of agricultural crops in the Congo Basin with stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains, charred food remains, and plant microparticles from dental calculus. Their findings reveal variation in the adoption of cereals from the early Iron Age, and provide long-term insights into changing human reliance on different resources.

Madeleine Bleasdale
Hans-Peter Wotzka
Patrick Roberts
ResearchOpen Access27 Oct 2020
Communications Biology

Volume: 3, P: 1-10
Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago

Homo erectus adapted to hyper-arid climatic conditions one million years ago through the strategic use of rivers and ponds, and this facilitated geographic expansion within and beyond Africa, as shown by multi-proxy data from Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania.

Julio Mercader
Pamela Akuku
Paul Durkin
ResearchOpen Access16 Jan 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-13
Primate archaeology

Michael Haslam
Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar
Rebecca Warren
Reviews16 Jul 2009
Nature

Volume: 460, P: 339-344

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Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago

Earliest known human burial in Africa

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

Microbotanical residues for the study of early hominin tools

Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest

Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago

Primate archaeology

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