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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 earliest evidence for the use of human bone as a tool.
TL;DR: A skull fragment from a Mousterian context at the site of La Quina (France) represents the earliest known use of human bone as a raw material and the first reported use for this purpose by hominins other than modern humans.
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An evolutionary developmental approach to cultural evolution.
TL;DR: The ambition here is not to produce a definitive statement on what such a theory should look like but rather to propose a starting point along with an argumentation and demonstration of its potential.
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Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania
Christian A. Tryon,Jason Lewis,Kathryn L. Ranhorn,Amandus Kwekason,Bridget Alex,Myra F. Laird,Curtis W. Marean,Curtis W. Marean,Elizabeth M. Niespolo,Elizabeth M. Niespolo,Joelle Nivens,Audax Mabulla +11 more
TL;DR: The Kisese II rockshelter in the Kondoa region of Tanzania, originally excavated in 1956, preserves a 6-m-thick archaeological succession that spans the MSA/LSA transition, with lithic artifacts such as Levallois and bladelet cores and backed microliths, and >5,000 ostrich eggshell beads and bead fragments.
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Successes and failures of human dispersals from North Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the events that took place in North Africa and examined some of the reasons of the failure of the Out-of-Africa-2a migration and, on the other hand, of the success of the OAF-2b movement with particular attention to North Africa.
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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.