Although experimental archaeology in some form has existed for more than a century, in the
last couple of decades it has matured as a useful approach for making inferences and …

Central Africa is a key region for examining patterns of hunter-gatherer inhabitation and
engagement with ecological diversity and environmental change. In contrast to adjacent …

Nubian Levallois cores are currently one of the most debated artefact types in Palaeolithic
archaeology. Previous work has focused mainly on the definition and technological …

In the study of Early Pleistocene stone artifacts, researchers have made considerable
progress in reconstructing the technical decisions of hominins by examining various aspects …

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 …

The Aurignacian is the first European technocomplex assigned to Homo sapiens recognized
across a wide geographic extent. Although archaeologists have identified marked chrono …

In stone artefact studies, researchers often rely on qualitative classifications to describe flake
scar arrangements on cores. While this approach provides a broad overview of core …

This paper is a response to the conference session 'Generic MSA: fact or fiction?'held as part
of the PanAfrican Association Conference in 2022 in Unguja, Tanzania. It questions the …

Abstract The Late Pleistocene archaeological record in the Turkana Basin is important for
studying Homo sapiens evolution, but the record in this region is poorly documented …

Archaeological systematics, together with spatial and chronological information, are
commonly used to infer cultural evolutionary dynamics in the past. For the study of the …