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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
Sally McBrearty,Alison S. Brooks +1 more
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The African Middle and early Late Pleistocene hominid fossil record is fairly continuous and in it can be recognized a number of probably distinct species that provide plausible ancestors for H. sapiens, and suggests a gradual assembling of the package of modern human behaviors in Africa, and its later export to other regions of the Old World.About:
This article is published in Journal of Human Evolution.The article was published on 2000-11-01. It has received 2165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Behavioral modernity & Later Stone Age.read more
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The Emergence of Bone Technologies at the end of the Pleistocene in Southeast Asia: Regional and Evolutionary Implications
Ryan Rabett,Philip Piper +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of prehistoric bone technologies within the Southeast Asian sequence is explored, where they have at least comparable antiquity to Europe and other parts of Asia, and the authors suggest that this is consistent with it becoming a focus of the kinds of inventive behaviour demanded of foraging communities as they adapted to far-reaching environmental and demographic changes that were reshaping this region at that time.
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The emergence, diversity and significance of Mode 3 (prepared core) technologies.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the background to the emergence of Levallois technologies in Europe by reviewing the development of the broader range of Mode 3 (prepared core) technologies from across Africa and Eurasia.
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Signatures of the Preagricultural Peopling Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa as Revealed by the Phylogeography of Early Y Chromosome Lineages
Chiara Batini,Chiara Batini,Gianmarco Ferri,Giovanni Destro-Bisol,Francesca Brisighelli,Francesca Brisighelli,Donata Luiselli,Paula Sánchez-Diz,Jorge Rocha,Tatum S. Simonson,António Brehm,Valeria Montano,Valeria Montano,Nasr Eldin Elwali,Nasr Eldin Elwali,Gabriella Spedini,Maria Eugenia D’Amato,Natalie M. Myres,Peter Ebbesen,David Comas,Cristian Capelli +20 more
TL;DR: By revising the phylogeography of the very early human Y chromosome lineages, support is obtained for the role of southern Africa as a sink, rather than a source, of the first migrations of modern humans from eastern and central parts of the continent.
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Radiometrically dated ostrich eggshell beads from the Middle and Later Stone Age of Magubike Rockshelter, southern Tanzania
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Pleistocene rainforests: barriers or attractive environments for early human foragers?
TL;DR: A review of the archaeological evidence for human rainforest occupation from several regions is presented in this article, with tantalizing hints of even earlier colonization, from c. 45 to c. 200 thousand years ago.
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Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: Development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy
Douglas G. Martinson,Nicklas G Pisias,James D. Hays,John Imbrie,Theodore C. Moore,Nicholas J Shackleton +5 more
TL;DR: Using the concept of "orbital tuning", a continuous, high-resolution deep-sea chronostratigraphy has been developed spanning the last 300,000 yr as mentioned in this paper.
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Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution
TL;DR: All these mitochondrial DMAs stem from one woman who is postulated to have lived about 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa, implying that each area was colonised repeatedly.