Border Cave rhizomes from the early Middle Stone Age
I’m pretty excited about today’s paper revealing new evidence of cooked rhizomes from Border Cave in South Africa. The paper is in Science, by Lyn Wadley and...
All posts tagged with modern humans
How much did Y chromosome haplogroups shape our current picture of early modern humans?
Earlier this month I published a piece on Medium about our changing picture of modern human origins in Africa: “Three big insights into our African origins”....
Link: Three big insights into our African origins
Recently, I delivered a lecture to the American Society for Human Genetics, focusing on the African record of human origins. It was a great privilege to spea...
Omo Kibish redating
The news stories (nature.com) are focusing on the idea that the “earliest” modern humans are now 35,000 years earlier than they had been. This is the amount ...