Early human innovation in southern Africa tied to mobility and social networks rather than climate alone, new study shows

Researchers have produced a detailed ecological history of southern Africa between 180,000 and 30,000 years ago and used the record to reexamine links between climate and early human innovation. The results suggest...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/human-innovation-in-southern-africa-mobility-connection/

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An #introduction:

I'm a computational archaeologist at the University of Bern, where I'm working on https://xronos.ch, an open database of radiocarbon dates and other chronological data in #archaeology.

My research uses #datascience and computer modelling to understand the economy and #archaeoecology of the first farmers in prehistoric Southwest Asia.

I also maintain a few #Rstats packages (have we brought #Rchaeology to Mastodon yet?) at https://github.com/joeroe.