A5020463549- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- dental development and anomalies
- Digestive system and related health
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Geological formations and processes
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation
- Hip disorders and treatments
- Comparative Animal Anatomy Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
Tanzania National Parks
2019-2025
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology
2019-2022
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2017
Universidad de Salamanca
2017
National Archaeological Museum of Spain
2017
Museo de San Isidro
2012-2017
University of Dar es Salaam
2017
Defence Terrain Research Laboratory
2017
Catholic University of Ávila
2017
Abstract Multiple lines of genetic and archaeological evidence suggest that there were major demographic changes in the terminal Late Pleistocene epoch early Holocene sub-Saharan Africa 1–4 . Inferences about this period are challenging to make because shifts past 5,000 years have obscured structures more ancient populations 3,5 Here we present genome-wide DNA data for six individuals from eastern south-central spanning approximately 18,000 (doubling time depth African DNA), increase quality...
Recent excavations in Level 4 at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded nine hominin teeth, a distal humerus fragment, proximal radius with much of its shaft, femur and tibia shaft fragment (cataloged collectively as OH 80). Those elements identified more specifically than to simply Hominidae gen. et sp. indet are attributed Paranthropus boisei. Before this study, incontrovertible P. boisei partial skeletons, for which postcranial remains occurred association taxonomically...
East African genetics and pastoralism The origin spread of domestic animals across the globe also affected underlying genetic composition human populations. In Africa, however, it has been difficult to identify impact interactions among migrating food producers local hunter-gatherers. Prendergast et al. wanted discern timing movement husbandry its effects on foraging communities in Africa. They sequenced 41 ancient eastern genomes from individuals that lived approximately 100 4000 years ago....
In Africa, the scarcity of hominin remains found in direct association with stone tools has hindered attempts to link Homo habilis and erectus particular lithic industries. The infant mandible discovered level E at Garba IV (Melka Kunture) on highlands Ethiopia is critical this issue due its an Oldowan industry. Here, we use synchrotron imaging examine internal morphology unerupted permanent dentition confirm identification as erectus. Additionally, utilize new palaeomagnetic ages show that...
Abstract The urban peoples of the Swahili coast traded across eastern Africa and Indian Ocean were among first practitioners Islam sub-Saharan people 1,2 . extent to which these early interactions between Africans non-Africans accompanied by genetic exchange remains unknown. Here we report ancient DNA data for 80 individuals from 6 medieval modern ( ad 1250–1800) coastal towns an inland town after 1650. More than half many originates primarily female ancestors Africa, with a large...
The use of innovative techniques such as micro‐photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics may have a major impact on the differentiation cut marks made with different raw materials and, thus, link butchering processes stone tool reduction sequences. This work focuses sample cut‐marked bones from Bell's Korongo (BK) site (Upper Bed II , Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), which is an emblematic early Pleistocene where large faunal assemblage, including diverse megafauna, occurs in association quartzite...
Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate fossils in several African archaeological assemblages demonstrate a significant level of carnivory by Pleistocene hominins, but the discovery at Olduvai Gorge child's pathological cranial fragments indicates that some hominins probably experienced scarcity animal foods during various stages their life histories. The parietal...
Abstract Humans are unique in their diet, physiology and socio-reproductive behavior compared to other primates. They also the ubiquitous adaptation all biomes habitats. From an evolutionary perspective, these trends seem have started about two million years ago, coinciding with emergence of encephalization, reduction dental apparatus, adoption a fully terrestrial lifestyle, resulting modern anatomical bauplan, focalization certain activities landscape, use stone tools, exit from Africa. It...
Abstract The phylogenetic position of Homo habilis is central to debates over the origin and early evolution genus . A large portion species hypodigm consists dental remains, but they have only been studied at often worn enamel surface. We investigate morphology H. enamel-dentine junction (EDJ), which preserved in cases moderate tooth wear known carry a strong taxonomic signal. Geometric morphometrics used characterise dentine crown shape size across entire mandibular maxillary rows,...
Significance Lipid residue analysis of archaeological ceramics provides the earliest direct chemical evidence for milk, meat, and plant consumption by pastoralist societies in eastern Africa. Data milk specialized pastoral systems (c. 5000 to 1200 BP) reveal changing selective pressures lactase persistence provide support models gene–culture coevolution among populations.
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders through southern Kenya northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing specialized forms that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient has been primarily restricted to rockshelters special purpose sites. This paper presents results surveys excavations at...
Abstract Olduvai Gorge, nestled between the East African Rift Valley and Mozambique Belt, is key to understanding human evolution. Even though extensive archaeological palaeoanthropological findings have been unearthed here since 1930s, Middle Stone Age in this area has nonetheless received less attention than Oldowan or Acheulean. This paper presents lithic technology analysis of Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), a newly-documented MSA site located at junction main gorge side Olduvai. DGS provides...
As part of a larger project examining the introduction herding into northern Tanzania, surveys and excavations were conducted at southern edge Mbulu Plateau, documenting presence Narosura ceramics dating to early third millennium BP, as well Later Stone Age occupation dated via ostrich eggshell tenth BP. This marks southernmost extent Pastoral Neolithic in eastern Africa. The paucity sites attributable this area may be due lack survey landscapes likely have been preferred by livestock owners...