Our understanding of the impact of climate-driven environmental change on prehistoric
human populations is hampered by the scarcity of continuous paleoenvironmental records …

Studies of early human settlement in alpine environments provide insights into human
physiological, genetic, and cultural adaptation potentials. Although Late and even Middle …

Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing
collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still …

In this study, new approaches are developed for measuring and understanding the reactivity
of East African amplifier lakes and the societies that occupied their margins to African …

Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists recover from their excavations,
and predictably, they struggle to understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4 million …

The silicic peralkaline volcanoes of the East African Rift are some of the least studied
volcanoes on Earth. Here we bring together new constraints from fieldwork, remote sensing …

Abstract The Ethiopian Rift Valley hosts the longest record of human co-existence with
volcanoes on Earth, however, current understanding of the magnitude and timing of large …

Abstract The Gademotta and Kulkuletti site complex, located in the central part of the Main
Ethiopian Rift, is known to be one of the richest early Middle Stone Age (MSA) sequences in …

With excavated layers spanning a period from> 49 ka to~ 36 ka, Mochena Borago
Rockshelter reveals a complex sequence of Late Pleistocene human occupation punctuated …

Microliths and microlithic industries are central to definitions of the Later Stone Age
technologies. It is generally accepted that microliths are associated with a change to more …