Rahab Kinyanjui

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compile archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data from East Africa to document land-cover change, and environmental, subsistence and land-use transitions over the past 6000 years.

TL;DR: Aspects of Acheulean technology in this region imply that, as early as 615,000 years ago, greater stone material selectivity and wider resource procurement coincided with an increased pace of land-lake fluctuation, potentially anticipating the adaptability of MSA hominins.

TL;DR: The most common grass phytoliths from “Zambezian” miombos are described here for the first time, and their potential for long term preservation in sediments makes them a useful tool in the reconstruction of ancient plant communities and plant/human interactions.

TL;DR: Pollen and charcoal data generated from a 1469 cm core, radiocarbon dated to 26,430 14 C yr BP, recovered from Rumuiku Swamp on the southeast of Mount Kenya, are used to document changes in the distribution and composition of montane vegetation and fire regimes over the Late Quaternary as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Well-dated, high-resolution, drill-core datasets are used to understand ecological dynamics associated with a major adaptive transition in the archeological record and offer a resource-oriented hypothesis for the evolutionary success of MSA adaptations, which likely contributed to the ecological flexibility typical of Homo sapiens foragers.