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The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe
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In this paper, the authors compared the TCSA values of ethnographic North American stone projectile points to hypothetical Middle and Upper Paleolithic stone-tipped projectile points from Africa, the Levant, and Europe.About:
This article is published in Journal of Archaeological Science.The article was published on 2006-06-01. It has received 376 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Arrowhead & Projectile point.read more
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Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
Kyle S. Brown,Kyle S. Brown,Curtis W. Marean,Andy I.R. Herries,Andy I.R. Herries,Zenobia Jacobs,Chantal Tribolo,David R. Braun,David Roberts,Michael C. Meyer,Jocelyn Bernatchez +10 more
TL;DR: Replication experiments and analysis of artifacts suggest that humans in South Africa at this time, and perhaps earlier, systematically heated stone materials, including silcrete to improve its flaking properties in making tools.
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Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere
TL;DR: A general causal theory is presented to explain why human societies gained the capacity to globally alter the patterns, processes, and dynamics of ecology and how these anthropogenic alterations unfold over time and space as societies themselves change over human generational time.
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Fifty millennia of catastrophic extinctions after human contact.
TL;DR: New observations emerging from refined dating techniques, paleoecology and modeling suggest that the megafaunal collapses of the Americas and Australia, as well as most prehistoric island biotic losses, trace to a variety of human impacts, including rapid overharvesting, biological invasions, habitat transformation and disease.
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The emergence of ornaments and art: an archaeological perspective on the origins of "behavioral modernity"
TL;DR: The earliest known personal ornaments come from the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa, c. 75,000 years ago, and are associated with anatomically modern humans.
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What's a Mother to Do? The Division of Labor among Neandertals and Modern Humans in Eurasia
Steven L. Kuhn,Mary C. Stiner +1 more
TL;DR: For example, the rich archaeological record of Middle Paleolithic cultures in Eurasia suggests that earlier hominins pursued more narrowly focused economies, with womens activities more closely aligned with those of men with respect to schedule and ranging patterns than in recent forager systems as mentioned in this paper.
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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
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Lower Palaeolithic hunting spears from Germany
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