Eslem Ben Arous

2 months ago | nature.com | Eslem Ben Arous |James Blinkhorn |Sarah Elliott |Christopher A. Kiahtipes |Mark Bateman |Mathieu Duval | +5 more

AbstractHumans emerged across Africa shortly before 300 thousand years ago (ka)1,2,3. Although this pan-African evolutionary process implicates diverse environments in the human story, the role of tropical forests remains poorly understood. Here we report a clear association between late Middle Pleistocene material culture and a wet tropical forest in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest.