Agriculture has long been regarded as an improvement in the human condition: Once Homo
sapiens made the transition from foraging to farming in the Neolithic, health and nutrition …

We assembled genome-wide data from 16 prehistoric Africans. We show that the anciently
divergent lineage that comprises the primary ancestry of the southern African San had a …

The authors hypothesize that dietary deficiency or excess of iodine (I) has an important role
in oral mucosa and in salivary glands physiology. Salivary glands derived from primitive I …

South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least
two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological …

The cross‐sectional distribution of cortical bone in long bone diaphyses is highly responsive
to mechanical loading during life, yet the relationship between systemic and localized …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

The robusticity of human long bone diaphyses can provide information about habitual
behaviour among humans in the past. Mechanically relevant morphological variables …

The discipline of human evolution usually involves the evaluation of changes in gross and
molecular morphology or changes in artifact assemblages. In contrast, stable isotope …

Radiocarbon dates (3500–900 BP) from human skeletons (N= 146) of late Holocene
foragers from the Southwestern Cape coast are calibrated, incorporating estimates of the …

As indicators of the intensity and frequency of muscle activity, the rugosity and size of muscle
insertion areas in human skeletal remains may provide a record of average work effort in …