Pleistocene North African genomes link near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

M Van de Loosdrecht, A Bouzouggar, L Humphrey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
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 …

Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco

LT Humphrey, I De Groote, J Morales… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Dental caries is an infectious disease that causes tooth decay. The high prevalence of
dental caries in recent humans is attributed to more frequent consumption of plant foods rich …

[图书][B] The evolution of Paleolithic technologies

SL Kuhn - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

A late Pleistocene refugium in Mediterranean North Africa? Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from stable isotope analyses of land snail shells (Haua Fteah, Libya)

AL Prendergast, RE Stevens, TC O'Connell… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Pleistocene to Holocene archaeological record of North Africa is key to
understanding the emergence of anatomically modern humans into West Asia and Europe …

The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa

RNE Barton, CS Lane, PG Albert, D White… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Sites in North Africa hold key information for dating the presence of Homo sapiens
and the distribution of Middle Stone Age (MSA), Middle Palaeolithic (MP) and Later Stone …

Recent historical migrations have shaped the gene pool of Arabs and Berbers in North Africa

LR Arauna, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
North Africa is characterized by its diverse cultural and linguistic groups and its genetic
heterogeneity. Genomic data has shown an amalgam of components mixed since pre …

The relevance of late MSA mandibles on the emergence of modern morphology in Northern Africa

I Bergmann, JJ Hublin, A Ben-Ncer, FZ Sbihi-Alaoui… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
North Africa is a key area for understanding hominin population movements and the
expansion of our species. It is home to the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel …

ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age

A Desmond, N Barton, A Bouzouggar, K Douka… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study applies peptide mass fingerprinting (also known as 'ZooMS') to bone tools from
the North African Palaeolithic, as the first stage in a research programme aimed at …

Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco

Z Moubtahij, J McCormack, N Bourgon… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture stands as one of the most important
dietary revolutions in human history. Yet, due to a scarcity of well-preserved human remains …

Large scale anthropogenic reduction of forest cover in Last Glacial Maximum Europe

JO Kaplan, M Pfeiffer, JCA Kolen, BAS Davis - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Reconstructions of the vegetation of Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) are an
enigma. Pollen-based analyses have suggested that Europe was largely covered by steppe …