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Quickies That's what a recently published paper discusses. Oh, by the way, context for the casual reader: Howieson Port and relate...

Quantity over quality series. Sylvain Soriano et al. The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Sto...

Interesting study on paleo-rivers of the Sahara providing insight for a likely route for Homo sapiens to cross the Sahara towards NW Africa...

The Nubian Complex MSA techno-culture arrived to Central Arabia, just south of Riyadh seemingly via the South Rémy Cressard & Yaman...

Again Team Petraglia revealing fascinating evidence on the Middle Paleolithic dispersal of Homo sapiens, and one that fits well the geneti...

I do not have yet access to this potentially key paper, so first of all I want to make an appeal here to share a copy with me ( → email add...

As I mentioned recently , I am collaborating in a joint series of articles in Spanish language which try to explore the expansion of Homo s...

Recently David Sánchez (of Noticias de Prehistoria - Prehistoria al Día [es] ) asked me to collaborate in a series at his blog on the earl...

A new paper argues for the importance of ill-researched early African stone technologies in human techno-cultural evolution, based mostly o...

You know: the stuff that should have been commented if I was perfect or a paid professional - but was not: Genetics Pigmentation reasona...

A new paper on Arabian archaeological sites is making that claim. So far ( Petraglia 2010 ) we had a limitation with dates only reaching in ...

Blombos point Since I started reading about the MSA ( Middle Stone Age , the main African Middle Paleolithic stone industry) I have been ...