Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA/LSA) transition is a prominent feature of the
African archeological record that began in some places~ 30,000–60,000 years ago …

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 …

Nubian Levallois technology has recently risen to the forefront of debates surrounding Late
Pleistocene human technological behaviour, cultural traditions and demographic histories …

The Middle to Later Stone Age transition marks a major change in how Late Pleistocene
African populations produced and used stone tool kits, but is manifest in various ways …

The ubiquity and durability of lithic artifacts inform archaeologists about important
dimensions of human behavioral variability. Despite their importance, lithic artifacts can be …

Genetic and climate-driven estimates of past population dynamics are increasingly
influential in broader models of hominin migration and adaptation, yet the contribution of …

As is the case today, both climate variability and population density influenced human
behavioural change in the past. The mechanisms underpinning later Pleistocene human …

Lithic artefacts provide the principal means to study cultural change in the deep human past.
Tools and cores have been the focus of much prior research based on their perceived …

How surprising are the contents of lithic assemblages? If an archeologist excavated an
archeological site somewhere in Eurasia and uncovered evidence of Levallois core …

The invention of projectile technology had important ramifications for hominin evolution.
However, the number of stone points that could have been used as projectiles fluctuates in …