Framed by current knowledge of early Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in the Horn of Africa, recent research at MB includes

1) Problems and prospects of chronometrically dating >50ka deposits by obsidian hydration, argon/argon and tephrochronology

2) Analysis of lithic (chipped stone) assemblages 

from these deposits

3) Higher frequencies of ground stone artifacts, many of which are stained with ochre 

4) Archaeobotanical research