The Ethiopian region records about one billion years of geological history. The first event
was the closure of the Mozambique ocean between West and East Gondwana with the …

Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in the Turkana Depression of northern Kenya
and southern Ethiopia rest on basement rocks that yield K/Ar cooling ages between 433 and …

The Acheulian is one of the first defined prehistoric techno-complexes and is characterized
by shaped bifacial stone tools,,. It probably originated in Africa, spreading to Europe and …

Six tuffaceous beds within the Omo Group of the Omo–Turkana Basin have been dated
using the 40Ar/39Ar single crystal total fusion method on anorthoclase, yielding eruption …

Palaeomagnetic analysis was conducted on speleothems from Members 1–5 at Sterkfontein
Cave, South Africa. Palaeomagnetic analysis of siltstone and speleothem from the bulk of …

This paper presents a review of, and new data concerning, the age of Australopithecus in
southern Africa. Current dating suggests that Makapansgat Limeworks is the oldest hominin …

The KNM-ER 2598 occipital is among the oldest fossils attributed to Homo erectus but
questions have been raised about whether it may derive from a younger horizon. Here we …

The current understanding of landscape scale variation in mid-Pleistocene hominin
behavior is limited. Most of our understanding derives from a few localities in eastern Africa …

To address questions regarding the evolutionary origin, radiation and dispersal of the genus
Homo, it is crucial to be able to place the occurrence of hominin fossils in a high-resolution …

Potassium–argon (K–Ar) ages on whole rock samples have been measured on lavas from
the subaerial Samoa Islands, which form a broadly linear volcanic chain that extends from …