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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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An Experimental Investigation of the Functional Hypothesis and Evolutionary Advantage of Stone-Tipped Spears
TL;DR: The controlled experiment reported here was designed to test the functional hypothesis for stone-tipped weapons using spears and ballistics gelatin, and includes a quantitative analysis of wound track profiles and focuses specifically on hand-delivered spear technology.
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Ochre Provenance and Procurement Strategies During The Middle Stone Age at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa
Laure Dayet,F.-X. Le Bourdonnec,Floréal Daniel,Guillaume Porraz,Guillaume Porraz,Pierre-Jean Texier +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the reasons underlying the choice of particular local and non-local ochre sources exploited at Diepkloof, emphasizing differences in their physico-chemical properties.
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External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution
TL;DR: Results from a trial of trained javelin athletes provide new estimates for key performance parameters, and show that distance hunting was likely within the repertoire of hunting strategies of Neanderthals, and the resulting behavioural flexibility closely mirrors that of the authors' own species.
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The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past
TL;DR: LeCain this article argues that cattle, silkworms, and copper helped to drive these previously diverse nations towards a global 'great convergence' in the latenineteenth century, when both the United States and Japan were emerging as global superpowers.
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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.