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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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Coastal Diet, Encephalization, and Innovative Behaviors in the Late Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
TL;DR: For example, Parkton et al. as discussed by the authors showed that the appearance of modern humans in southern Africa can be traced back to the late mid-Pleistocene and early Late Pleistocene.
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What is in a name?: Characterising the 'Post-Howieson's Poort' at Sibudu
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the post-Howieson's poort assemblages from Sibudu Cave in KwaZulu-Natal where there are deep and archaeologically rich strata with ages of c. 58 ka.
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Late Quaternary human settlement patterning in the Jebel Gharbi.
Elena A. A. Garcea,Carlo Giraudi +1 more
TL;DR: This paper presents the latest results of geoarchaeological research on the Upper Pleistocene sequence in the Jebel Gharbi, a mountain range located in Tripolitania, northwestern Libya, and suggests that they offered attractive resources to populations coming from drier parts of North Africa or the near-by Sahara.
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Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka
Oshan Wedage,Andrea Picin,James Blinkhorn,Katerina Douka,Siran Deraniyagala,Nikos Kourampas,Nikos Kourampas,Nimal Perera,Ian A. Simpson,Nicole Boivin,Michael D. Petraglia,Patrick Roberts +11 more
TL;DR: It is argued that microlith assemblages were an important part of the environmental plasticity that enabled Homo sapiens to colonise and specialise in a diversity of ecological settings during its expansion within and beyond Africa.
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Mauer – the type site of Homo heidelbergensis: palaeoenvironment and age
TL;DR: The mandible of Homo heidelbergensis was found 1907 in the sand pit Grafenrain at Mauer in coarse fluvial sands 24 m below the surface, deposited in a former course of the Neckar River as mentioned in this paper.
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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.