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Mapping Ancient Africa: Literature

Articles published in the Mapping Ancient Africa special issue of Quaternary International

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  • Boisard, S., Wren, C.D., Timbrell, L. & Burke, A. (2025) Climate frameworks for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa. Quaternary International 716, 109593. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2024.109593 (article #4)
  • Bremond, L., Aleman, J.C., Favier, C., Blarquez, O., Colombaroli, D., Connor, S.E., Cordova, C.E., Courtney-Mustaphi, C., Dabengwa, A.N., Gil-Romera, G., Gosling, W.D., Hamilton, T., Montade, V., Razafimanantsoa, A.H.I., Power, M.J., Razanatsoa, E., Yabi, I. & Vannière, B. (2024) Past fire dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa during the last 25,000 years: Climate change and increasing human impacts. Quaternary International 711, 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.07.012 (article #1)
  • Costanzo, S., Zerboni, A., Cremaschi, M. & Usai, D. (2025) Mapping Early Holocene to contemporary surface processes and human landscapes west of the lower White Nile (central Sudan). Quaternary International 715, 109592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.109592 (article #3)
  • Dabengwa, A. N., Scott, L., & Bamford, M. (2025). Reinterpretation of palaeoecological records from Tswaing crater (South Africa) reveals the crucial role of fire in shaping savanna. Quaternary International, 750, 110010. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110010 (article #9)
  • Gosling, W.D., Chevalier, M., Fischer, M.L., Holewijn, M., Finch, J., Gil-Romera, G., Hill, T., Houngnon, A., Leonardi, M., Manica, A., & Kaboth-Bahr, S. (2025). A multi-model approach to the spatial and temporal characterization of the African Humid Period. Quaternary International 744, 109933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109933 (article #7)
  • Hlophe B. & Bamford M.K. (2025) Charcoal insights on the vegetation, climate and subsistence patterns at Wonderwerk Cave. Quaternary International 728,109755. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109755 (article #6)
  • Ivory, S.J., MacDougal, E., Mason, A., Pereboom, E., Garelick, S., Ficken, K., Wooller, M.J., Nakileza, B. & Russell, J. (2024) Highland forest dynamics across equatorial East Africa during the end of the African humid period. Quaternary International 713, 109575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.10.007 (article #2)
  • Kiely, R.E., Paine, A.R., McMichael, C.H. & Gosling, W.D. (2025) Heat, hydroclimate and herbivory: A late-Pleistocene record of environmental change from tropical western Africa. Quaternary International 717, 109636. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2024.109636 (article #5)
  • Kinyanjui, R. N., Mashaka, H. K., Chritz, K. L., Wemanya, S. N., Ndiema, E. K., Braun, D. R., & Bamford, M. (2026). Holocene vegetation dynamics of the Koobi Fora Basin, East Turkana, Kenya: Insights from phytolith analysis. Quaternary International, 759, 110131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2026.110131 (article #10)
  • Neumann, F. H., Finch, J., Hahn, A., Miller, C. S., Scott, L., Schefuß, E., Dupont, L., Cawthra, H. C., & Engelbrecht, F. (2025). Vegetation and climate dynamics in a 16,600-year marine sequence offshore Mozambique in Delagoa Bight, south-eastern Africa. Quaternary International, 747, 109956. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109956 (article #8)

References related to Mapping Ancient Africa seminars

  • Blanchet, C.L., Osborne, A.H., Tjallingii, R., Ehrmann, W., Friedrich, T., Timmermann, A., Brückmann, W. & Frank, M. (2021) Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle. Nature Geoscience 14, 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-00671-3
  • Blanchet, C.L., Tjallingii, R., Schleicher, A.M., Schouten, S., Frank, M. & Brauer, A. (2021) Deoxygenation dynamics on the western Nile deep-sea fan during sapropel S1 from seasonal to millennial timescales. Climate of the Past 17, 1025-1050. DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-1025-2021
  • Bodin, S.C., Neumann, K., Hensel, E.A., Vogelsang, R., Demissew, S., Casas-Gallego, M. & Hahn, K. (2024) Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-023-00977-3
  • Boisard, S. & Arous, E.B. (2024) A critical inventory and associated chronology of the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 12, 5. DOI: 10.5334/joad.121
  • Casas-Gallego, M., Hahn, K., Neumann, K., Demissew, S., Schmidt, M., Bodin, S.C. & Bruch, A.A. (2023) Cooling-induced expansions of Afromontane forests in the Horn of Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum. Scientific Reports 13, 10323. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37135-8
  • Chevalier, M., Chase, B.M., Quick, L.J., Dupont, L.M. & Johnson, T.C. (2021) Temperature change in subtropical southeastern Africa during the past 790,000 yr. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47841.1
  • Chevalier, M. (2022) crestr: an R package to perform probabilistic climate reconstructions from palaeoecological datasets. Climate of the Past 18, 821-844. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-821-2022
  • Diehl, R.J., Keller, H.M. & Hodgkins, J. (2022) Towards an interpretive framework for heated ostrich eggshell: An actualistic study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 43, 103465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103465
  • Faith, J.T., Du, A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Davies, B., Patterson, D.B., Rowan, J. & Wood, B. (2021) Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.011
  • Foerster, V., Asrat, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown, E.T., Chapot, M.S., Deino, A., Duesing, W., Grove, M., Hahn, A., Junginger, A., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Lane, C.S., Opitz, S., Noren, A., Roberts, H.M., Stockhecke, M., Tiedemann, R., Vidal, C.M., Vogelsang, R., Cohen, A.S., Lamb, H.F., Schaebitz, F. & Trauth, M.H. (2022) Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution. Nature Geoscience 15, 805–811. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01032-y
  • Kaboth-Bahr, S., Gosling, W.D., Vogelsang, R., Bahr, A., Scerri, E.M.L., Asrat, A., Cohen, A.S., Düsing, W., Foerster, V., Lamb, H.F., Maslin, M.A., Roberts, H.M., Schäbitz, F. & Trauth, M.H. (2021) Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, e2018277118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018277118
  • Leonardi, M., Hallett, E.Y., Beyer, R., Krapp, M. & Manica, A. (2023) pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions. Ecography 2023, e06481. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06481
  • Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Berner, N., Bibi, F., Foerster, V., Grove, M., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Maslin, M.A., Mudelsee, M. & Schäbitz, F. (2021) Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews 268, 107095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107095
  • Vidal, C.M., Lane, C.S., Asrat, A., Barfod, D.N., Mark, D.F., Tomlinson, E.L., Tadesse, A.Z., Yirgu, G., Deino, A., Hutchison, W., Mounier, A. & Oppenheimer, C. (2022) Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa. Nature 601, 579-583. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04275-8
  • Vinnepand, M., Zeeden, C., Wonik, T., Gosling, W., Noren, A., Kück, J., Pierdominici, S., Voigt, S., Abadi, M.S., Ulfers, A., Danour, S., Afrifa, K. & Kaboth-Bahr, S. (2024) An age-depth model for Lake Bosumtwi (Ghana) to reconstruct one million years of West African climate and environmental change. Quaternary Science Reviews 325, 108478. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108478
  • Wu, M., Nikulin, G., Kjellström, E., Belušić, D., Jones, C. & Lindstedt, D. (2020) The impact of regional climate model formulation and resolution on simulated precipitation in Africa. Earth system dynamics 11, 377-394. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-377-2020

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