Archaeology African

27 Jan 2021, is the final day that tweets will be posted to this account, initiated around 5 years ago with the intention of raising awareness of African archaeology and palaeontology and related topics. I hope it has served some purpose. Thanks to all the followers.

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Blade production ∼500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: support for a multiple origins hypothesis for early Middle Pleistocene blade technologies academia.edu/1510048/Blade_… via @academia

‘No one remains living in the past’: the dynamics of pottery technological styles in southwestern Ethiopia tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Dwelling after Makuria: the organisation and function of space in houses of the Funj period in Old Dongola, Nubia tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Lemos, R. David Edwards (Ed.): The Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia, 1963–69: The Pharaonic Sites. Afr Archaeol Rev (2021). doi.org/10.1007/s10437…

Douze, K. John J. Shea: Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa: A Guide. Afr Archaeol Rev (2021). doi.org/10.1007/s10437…

Pleistocene golden mole and sand-swimming trace fossils from the Cape coast of South Africa cup.org/3pouxb7

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa academia.edu/26784171/Clima… via @academia

Field and Technical Report A FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE NOTCHED BONE ARTEFACTS FROM KLASIES RIVER MAIN SITE academia.edu/44939360/Field… via @academia

PhD abstract. Variability among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in eastern Africa tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghrib: The Impact of Climate on the Economic, Social and Political Reorganisation of the Maghrib al-Aqṣā in the Eighth–Ninth Centuries: The Case of Sijilmāsa (Morocco) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Deep-sea trace fossils and depositional model from the lower Miocene Tiaret Marl Formation (northwestern Algeria) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

[PDF] Clay Mineralogy And Geochemistry Of Pleistocene Sediments From Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewconten…

Hunter-gatherers on the basin’s edge: a preliminary look at Holocene human occupation of Nangara-Komba Shelter, Central African Republic tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Xenodens calminechari gen. et sp. nov., a bizarre mosasaurid (Mosasauridae, Squamata) with shark-like cutting teeth from the upper Maastrichtian of Morocco, North Africa sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

🚨New open access paper and geomorphological map!!!! @journalofmaps Geomorphology and (palaeo-)hydrography of the Southern Atbai plain and western Eritrean Highlands (Eastern Sudan/Western Eritrea) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…