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The Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT) is characterised by major environmental changes and evolutionary innovations within the genus Homo but the scarcity of the African EMPT fossil and archaeological records obscures its palaeoecological context. Here, we present archaeological and faunal evidence from a newly excavated West-Turkana EMPT site--Kanyimangin. Keywords: Kenya, Early to Middle Pleistocene, lithic artefacts, geochronological analyses, Introduction One of the stumbling blocks to understanding the evolutionary history of the genus Homo concerns the impact of the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition (EMPT) (1.2-0.75Ma) on hominin populations. [...]

The megalithic burials of southern India--a wonderfully varied set of monuments--have long needed a chronology and a context. Broadly contemporary with the Roman and Sasanian empires, these dolmens, cairns and cists have continually raised contradictions with their material contents. The authors attack the problem using luminescence applied to pottery at the site of Siruthavoor in northeast Tamilnadu. Although sharing material culture, this first pilot project gave dates ranging from 300 BC to AD 600, so exposing the problem and perhaps, in OSL, its long-term solution. Keywords: southern India, Tamilnadu, Siruthavoor, Iron Age-Early Historic, first millennium BC, first millennium AD, dolmens, stone circles, cairns, cists, urn burial, OSL, Introduction 'A thousand megalithic cists might be excavated with the utmost care [in south India] without any significant addition to our knowledge of their chronology' (Wheeler 1947: 185). The chronology [...]