Erin Thompson

TL;DR: It is shown that by ∼164’kyr ago (±12 kyr) at Pinnacle Point (on the south coast of South Africa) humans expanded their diet to include marine resources, perhaps as a response to these harsh environmental conditions.

TL;DR: Three independent dating techniques allow us to constrain the age range of these sediments and together provide the stratigraphic context for the analyses of the material that follow in this special issue.

TL;DR: Comparison with other material from the Southern African MSA suggests that there is significant inter- and intra-site variability in the Southern Africa Middle Stone Age, even between portions of assemblages that are roughly contemporaneous.

TL;DR: In this article, an Early Stone Age Acheulean lithic assemblage collected along a 1.5km transect at the Garden Route Casino near Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay, South Africa, was examined in order to assess the relative degree to which assemblages variability is impacted by post-occupational processes and/or terrain.