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  • The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteomic and evolutionary studies.

    • Daniel R. Green
    • Kevin T. Uno
    • Timothy P. Cleland
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 643, P: 712-718

  • Here, the authors present archaeology of the Namorotukunan site in Kenya’s Turkana Basin that demonstrates adaptive shifts in hominin tool-making behaviour spanning 300,000 years and increasing environmental variability. They contextualize these findings with paleoenvironmental proxies, dating, and geological descriptions.

    • David R. Braun
    • Dan V. Palcu Rolier
    • Susana Carvalho
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-16

  • Analysis of ancient human DNA from the Swahili coast reveals that predominantly African female ancestors and Asian male ancestors formed families after around ad 1000 and lived in elite communities in coastal stone towns.

    • Esther S. Brielle
    • Jeffrey Fleisher
    • Chapurukha M. Kusimba
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 615, P: 866-873

  • DNA analysis of 6 individuals from eastern and south-central Africa spanning the past approximately 18,000 years, and of 28 previously published ancient individuals, provides genetic evidence supporting hypotheses of increasing regionalization at the end of the Pleistocene.

    • Mark Lipson
    • Elizabeth A. Sawchuk
    • Mary E. Prendergast
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 603, P: 290-296

  • KNM-ER 2598 is one of the oldest known Homo erectus fossils but there are doubts about its age. Here, Hammond et al. trace the original location of the specimen, confirming an age >1.85 million years, and locating additional hominin fossils situated in a paleohabitat dominated by C4 grazers.

    • Ashley S. Hammond
    • Silindokuhle S. Mavuso
    • Dan V. Palcu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-12

  • 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
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 593, P: 95-100

  • Consuming the milk of other species is a unique adaptation of Homo sapiens. Here, the authors carry out proteomic analysis of dental calculus of 41 ancient individuals from Sudan and Kenya, indicating milk consumption occurred as soon as herding spread into eastern Africa.

    • Madeleine Bleasdale
    • Kristine K. Richter
    • Nicole Boivin
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-11

  • Since its inception, the East African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology has brought together scholars and researchers who conduct research in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and palaeontology, creating a balanced forum for the study of human heritage in Africa.

    • Zeresenay Alemseged
    • Jackson Njau
    • Emmanuel Ndiema
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 3, P: 330-331