Some of the oldest coastal human occupations in West Africa, preserved in the sites Bargny 1 and 3 (Senegal), and associated with classic Middle Stone Age (MSA)
The ecosystems of northern Africa where the first hominins arrived are reconstructed: the work at the Guefaït-4 site
To hunt in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes with Clovis points, not throwing spears, roughly 13,000 years ago
The concentration of sites in fossil hotspots like the East African Rift System biases our understanding of human evolution
New perspectives on how climatic and environmental changes influenced the evolution of mammals and hominins over the last six million years.
New geological datings place the first European hominids at Orce, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, 1.3 million years ago
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa, from Kakapel; a trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya
Extensive social and cultural networks between different hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin (Central Africa) existed long before agriculture arrived in the region
The first lithic study of level VI-B at the Mumba site in Tanzania, a settlement by groups of Homo sapiens present in the Lake Eyasi region between 109,000 and 131,000 years ago
The Egyptian pyramids between Giza and Lisht may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile, the Ahramat branch
