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Late Quaternary extinct ungulates of East Africa and palaeoenvironmental implications

Curtis W. Marean
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Research04 Apr 1991
Nature

Volume: 350, P: 418-420
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

This study shows that a highly advanced stone tool technology (microlithic) appears earlier than originally thought; this microlithic technology persisted over a vast time span (∼11,000 years), and was part of an even longer-lived (>100,000 years) advanced technology of complex heat treatment.

Kyle S. Brown
Curtis W. Marean
Thalassa Matthews
Research07 Nov 2012
Nature

Volume: 491, P: 590-593
Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago

Youngest Toba Tuff glass shards found together with evidence of human occupation at two archaeological sites from the southern coast of South Africa indicate that early modern humans thrived in this region despite the eruption of the Toba supervolcano about 74,000 years ago.

Eugene I. Smith
Zenobia Jacobs
Curtis W. Marean
Research12 Mar 2018
Nature

Volume: 555, P: 511-515
Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption

The archaeological site Shinfa-Metema 1 in the lowlands of northwest Ethiopia provides early evidence of intensive riverine-based foraging aided by the likely adoption of the bow and arrow.

John Kappelman
Lawrence C. Todd
Sierra Yanny
Research20 Mar 2024
Nature

Volume: 628, P: 365-372
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

Evidence of shellfish use and cultural practice (use of red ochre) by Homo sapiens from a sea-cave in South Africa around 164,000 years ago presents the earliest evidence for the exploitation of coastal resources by some 40,000 years. At that time Africa was mostly desert, possibly driving small bands of hunter-gatherers seawards in search of new food sources

Curtis W. Marean
Miryam Bar-Matthews
Hope M. Williams
Research18 Oct 2007
Nature

Volume: 449, P: 905-908
Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

The earliest direct evidence for stone tools is between 2.6 and 2.5 million years old and comes from Gona, Ethiopia. These authors report bones from Dikika, Ethiopia, dated to around 3.4 million years ago and marked with cuts indicative of the use of stone tools to remove flesh and extract bone marrow. This is the earliest known evidence of stone tool use, and might be attributed to the activities of Australopithecus afarensis.

Shannon P. McPherron
Zeresenay Alemseged
Hamdallah A. Béarat
Research12 Aug 2010
Nature

Volume: 466, P: 857-860
Early signs of human presence in Australia

It emerges that people reached Australia earlier than was thought. This finding casts light on the technology used by the travellers, and their possible interactions with animal species that became extinct. See Article p.306

Curtis W. Marean
News & Views20 Jul 2017
Nature

Volume: 547, P: 285-286
A New Pleistocene Hominin Tracksite from the Cape South Coast, South Africa

Charles W. Helm
Richard T. McCrea
Sinèad Hattingh
ResearchOpen Access28 Feb 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-13

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