Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa

Abstract The earliest archaeological evidence from northern Africa dates to ca. 2.44 Ma. Nevertheless, the palaeoenvironmental setting of hominins living in this part of the continent at the Plio-Pleistocene transition remains poorly documented, particularly in comparison to eastern and southern Afr...

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Main Authors: Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Carlos Tornero, Hassan Aouraghe, Florent Rivals, Robert Patalano, Hamid Haddoumi, Isabel Expósito, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Steffen Mischke, Jan van der Made, Pedro Piñero, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Patrick Roberts, Deepak Kumar Jha, Jordi Agustí, Christian Sánchez-Bandera, Abdelkhalek Lemjidi, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Elena Moreno-Ribas, Aïcha Oujaa, Hicham Mhamdi, Mohamed Souhir, Al Mahdi Aissa, M. Gema Chacón, Robert Sala-Ramos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52672-0