Joséphine Lesur

TL;DR: The Later Stone Age site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia) is document, which contains confirmed caprine remains, from which it is infer that domesticates were present in the southern African region as early as the end of the first millennium BC, predate the first evidence of domesticates previously recorded for the subcontinent.

TL;DR: The earliest evidence of a prehistoric high-altitude residential site located in Africa’s largest alpine ecosystem, the repeated occupation of Fincha Habera rock shelter is dated to 47 to 31 thousand years ago, playing a pivotal role in facilitating the occupation of this site by Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers.

TL;DR: While pigs were not independently domesticated in Europe, the vast majority of human-mediated selection over the past 5,000 y focused on the genomic fraction derived from the European wild boars, and not on the fraction that was selected by early Neolithic farmers over the first 2,500 y of the domestication process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a stratified site associated with a complex of artesian springs was found to date to between 4800 and 4200 b.c. The site is the only well dated stratified settlement attributed to the Late Neolithic in the eastern Sahara that is characterized by Tasian cultural traditions.