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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 long-distance obsidian transport: Evidence from the ∼200 ka Middle Stone Age Sibilo School Road Site, Baringo, Kenya
TL;DR: The SSRS provides important new evidence that long-distance raw material transport was a significant feature of hominin behavior ∼200 ka, the time of the first appearance of H. sapiens, and ∼150,000 years before similar behaviors were previously documented in the region.
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Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History
TL;DR: Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination and argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where people lived apart yet stayed in touch that made us such effective world settlers.
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Neandertal social structure
TL;DR: The cognitive and social capacities of Neandertals have been questioned by a number of authors, while others suggest that such capacities did not differ markedly from those of anatomically modern humans in the last 30,000 years.
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Burin-core technology and laminar reduction sequences in the initial Upper Paleolithic from Kara-Bom (Gorny-Altai, Siberia)
TL;DR: In this article, the laminar reduction sequences from levels 5 and 6 of Kara-Bom, Gorny Altai, Siberia were reconstructed using a taphonomic and techno-economic approach.
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Roots of the Middle Paleolithic in Eurasia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define basic characteristics of the Eurasian Middle Paleolithic (MP) and trace their development, and outline some generalized features of MP material culture and behavior.
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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.