A revised stratigraphy for the early hominid site of Sterkfontein (Gauteng Province, South
Africa) reveals a complex distribution of infills in the main excavation area between 2·8 and 1·…

The cave infills at Sterkfontein contain one of the richest assemblages of Australopithecus
fossils in the world, including the nearly complete skeleton StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 in …

Florisbad, an open-air spring site with 7m of strata, has yielded the type assemblage of
Middle Stone Age (MSA) fauna, the cranium of an archaic hominid in 1932 and an extensive …

An absolute dating technique based on the build-up and decay of 26 Al and 10 Be in the
mineral quartz provides crucial evidence regarding early Acheulean hominid distribution in …

Based on the cosmogenic nuclide burial dating technique, we present new radiometric age
estimates of 2.19 ± 0.08 and 1.80 ± 0.09 million-years-old (Ma) for Member 1, and 0.96 ± …

Sterkfontein is the most prolific single source of Australopithecus fossils, the vast majority of
which were recovered from Member 4, a cave breccia now exposed by erosion and …

New research on the stone tool bearing deposits at the Plio-Pleistocene hominid site of
Sterkfontein (South Africa) demonstrates the complexity of Member 5, which is now shown to …

The Hoabinhian is the most representative technocomplex in Southeast Asian prehistory for
the later hunter–gatherer period. As a mainland technology based exclusively on seasonal …

The initial Late Paleolithic, said to appear between 40 and 30 kya in eastern Asia, is defined
by the appearance of many innovations. These archaeological indicators include the …

The Early Pleistocene site of Swartkrans in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage
Site has been significant for our understanding of the evolution of both early Homo and …