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  • Evidence of shellfish use and cultural practice (use of red ochre) by Homo sapiens from a sea-cave in South Africa around 164,000 years ago presents the earliest evidence for the exploitation of coastal resources by some 40,000 years. At that time Africa was mostly desert, possibly driving small bands of hunter-gatherers seawards in search of new food sources

    • Curtis W. Marean
    • Miryam Bar-Matthews
    • Hope M. Williams
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 449, P: 905-908

  • This study shows that a highly advanced stone tool technology (microlithic) appears earlier than originally thought; this microlithic technology persisted over a vast time span (∼11,000 years), and was part of an even longer-lived (>100,000 years) advanced technology of complex heat treatment.

    • Kyle S. Brown
    • Curtis W. Marean
    • Thalassa Matthews
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 491, P: 590-593

  • The authors generate a genome-wide dataset of 102 individuals who lived in Crete, the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands between the Neolithic and the Iron Age, identifying high levels of biological and cultural connectedness within the ancient Aegean.

    • Eirini Skourtanioti
    • Harald Ringbauer
    • Philipp W. Stockhammer
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 7, P: 290-303

  • Detailed comparative analyses of two fossil crania from Apidima Cave, Greece, indicate that two late Middle Pleistocene human groups were present at this site; first an early Homo sapiens population followed by a Neanderthal population.

    • Katerina Harvati
    • Carolin Röding
    • Mirsini Kouloukoussa
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 571, P: 500-504

  • Youngest Toba Tuff glass shards found together with evidence of human occupation at two archaeological sites from the southern coast of South Africa indicate that early modern humans thrived in this region despite the eruption of the Toba supervolcano about 74,000 years ago.

    • Eugene I. Smith
    • Zenobia Jacobs
    • Curtis W. Marean
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 555, P: 511-515