• Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa 

      Thompson, Jessica; Wright, David K.; Ivory, Sarah J; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Nightingale, Sheila; Mackay, Alex; Schilt, Flora; Otarola-Castillo, Erik; Mercader, Julio; Forman, Steven L.; Pietsch, Timothy; Cohen, Andrew S.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramon; Welling, Menno; Davis, Jacob; Schiery, Benjamin; Kaliba, Potiphar; Malijani, Oris; Blome, Margaret W.; O'Driscoll, Corey A.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Miller, Christopher E.; Heo, Seoyoung; Choi, Jungyu; Tembo, Joseph; Mapemba, Fredrick; Simengwa, Davie; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-05)
      Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental ...
    • Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago 

      Mackay, Alex; Armitage, Simon James; Niespolo, Elizabeth M.; Sharp, Warren D.; Stahlschmidt, Mareike C.; Blackwood, Alexander F.; Boyd, Kelsey C.; Chase, Brian; Lagle, Susan E.; Kaplan, Chester F.; Low, Marika A.; Martisius, Naomi L.; McNeill, Patricia J.; Moffat, Ian; O’Driscoll, Corey A.; Rudd, Rachel; Orton, Jayson; Steele, Teresa E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Africa’s Middle Stone Age preserves sporadic evidence for novel behaviours among early modern humans, prompting a range of questions about the influence of social and environmental factors on patterns of human behavioural ...