North Africa is a key region for understanding human history, but the genetic history of its
people is largely unknown. We present genomic data from seven 15,000-year-old modern …

The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

As efforts to recognize the Anthropocene as a new epoch of geological time are mounting,
the controversial debate about the time of its beginning continues. Here, we suggest the …

The relationship between Earlier Stone Age (ESA) hominins and the southern African
coastal environment has been poorly investigated, despite the high concentration of open …

Drawing upon the already well-known archaeological record and on recent data, we present
a general overview of Mesolithic stone production in Central–Southern Italy and its main …

Oxygen isotope geochemistry of Molluscan shell is an essential part of environmental
archaeology and over the last decade has contributed significantly to the understanding of …

There are relatively few coastal Mesolithic sites in the Iberian Mediterranean region,
probably due to a number of factors including sea level changes and the disappearance of …

Determining the degree to which humans relied on coastal resources in the past is key for
understanding long-term social and economic development, as well as for assessing human …

In this contribution we dismantle the perceived role of marine resources and plant foods in
the subsistence economy of Holocene foragers of the Central Mediterranean using a …

Recent genetic studies based on the distribution of mtDNA of haplogroup U6 have led to
subtly different theories regarding the arrival of modern human populations in North Africa …