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The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Africa
Zooarchaeology is the study of animal bones from archaeological sites. Africa has the longest archaeological record in the world, potentially...
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Pleistocene Hominin Fossil Record of Africa
Which hominins are responsible for creating the Pleistocene archaeological record of Africa? Given that tool use has been recorded through...
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Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding...
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Pleistocene Archaeology of the Karonga District, Northern Malawi
Northern Malawi encompasses the southern extensional graben of the East African Rift System and the western shores of Lake Malawi (Niassa). The...
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Pleistocene Archaeology of Zimbabwe: An Overview
The Pleistocene archaeological record of Zimbabwe encompasses Earlier Stone Age, Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age cultural phases represented by...
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Complex Colors: Pleistocene Ochre Use in Africa
The regular use of ochre appears in the archaeological record during the Pleistocene – a time of significant behavioral and cognitive advances for...
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Qaleh Kurd Cave (Qazvin, Iran): Oldest Evidence of Middle Pleistocene Hominin Occupations and a Human Deciduous Tooth in the Iranian Central Plateau
The Iranian Central Plateau (ICP) with the Alborz and the Zagros Mountains is located at the crossroads between the Levant and the Caucasus to the...
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School of Rocks: a Transmission Time Investment Model for Pleistocene Lithic Technology
We propose a transmission time investment model for integrating the tenets of human behavioral ecology and cultural evolutionary theory to...
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Pleistocene Archaeology of the Republic of Djibouti
The Republic of Djibouti (Formerly known as French Somaliland and the French Territory of Afars and Issas) lies at the nexus of important geological,...
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Behavior in the Middle Pleistocene
The Middle Pleistocene is associated with a new level of technology, Mode 2, commonly called the Acheulean Culture. This appears in Africa and...
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Paleoecology in Studies of the Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
Since the 19th century, scientific studies of ecology and human evolution have been intricately connected. Inextricably overprinted with racist...
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‘Out of Franco-Cantabria’: The Globalization of Pleistocene Rock Art
Since the second half of the twentieth century, globalization has transformed archaeology into a ‘geoculture’ (using Wallerstein’s words) defined by...
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Changing Settlement Organization in the Late Pleistocene of the Wadi al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan
Since the 1980s, surveys in Jordan’s Wadi al-Hasa document dozens of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer sites, some of them tested or partly excavated....
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Some Implications of Pleistocene Figurative Rock Art in Indonesia and Australia
Until recent years, most western scholars had overlooked the existence of rock art in Indonesia or viewed it as being of limited antiquity and of...
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A Context for Connectivity: Insights to Environmental Heterogeneity in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Southern Africa Through Measuring Isotope Space and Overlap
Southern Africa is characterized by the development of varied Middle and Later Stone Age techno-complexes and behaviors against a backdrop of complex...
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The Pleistocene Stone Artifact Record of Africa: Technologies, Typologies, and Analytic Approaches
Flaked stone (lithic) artifacts are a ubiquitous cultural material at Pleistocene sites and first appear in the archaeological record 3.3 million...
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A Middle Pleistocene Butchery Site at Great Yeldham, Essex, UK: Identifying Butchery Strategies and Implications for Mammalian Faunal History
This paper discusses the evidence relating to an assemblage of Pleistocene bones and teeth discovered in a brick pit at Great Yeldham, Essex, in the...
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Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) Remains from Cueva del Gato 2 (Épila, Zaragoza): A Contribution to Human Consumption Patterns in Inland Iberia During the Late Pleistocene
Since the Middle Pleistocene, rabbits have played a crucial role as a resource for subsistence in various parts of Europe. Their significance during...
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Late Pleistocene Homo and the Emergence of Modern Humans
Three species of humans (at least) were present in Africa and Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene. Neanderthals evolved in Europe and expanded well...
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Regional Reponses to Global Climate Change: Exploring Anthropomorphic Depictions in Rock and Mobiliary Art Expressions from the Kimberley and Europe During the Late and Terminal Pleistocene
Northern Australia and particularly the Kimberley and Arnhem Land regions are well known for the intensive production of figurative anthropomorphs as...