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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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Culture and Cognitive Development in Phylogenetic, Historical, and Ontogenetic Perspective
TL;DR: A variety of converging evidence is pointed to to support the basic idea that the role of culture in cognitive development is indeed productively viewed in a broad developmental/historical perspective in which phylogeny, cultural-history, and participation in cultural practices in ontogeny are seen as co-constituting human ontogenY.
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Behavioral Differences between Middle and Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens in the East Mediterranean Levant: The Roles of Intraspecific Competition and Dispersal from Africa
TL;DR: The authors examined evidence for behavioral differences between Middle (MP) and Upper Paleolithic (UP) Homo sapiens in the East Mediterranean Levant and found that Middle vs. Upper Pareolithic behavioral differences are clearly germane to research on the origins of uniquely derived human behavior.
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An experimental study of hafting adhesives and the implications for compound tool technology.
Andrew Zipkin,Mark Wagner,Kate McGrath,Alison S. Brooks,Alison S. Brooks,Peter W. Lucas,Peter W. Lucas +6 more
TL;DR: The results indicated that overlap joint toughness is significantly increased by using a roughened joint surface, and suggest that Paleolithic use of ochre-loaded adhesives and the criteria used to select ochres for this purpose may have been mediated by visual and symbolic considerations rather than purely functional concerns.
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Autism, the Integrations of ‘Difference’ and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the incorporation of cognitive differences played a significant role in the technological, social and symbolic expression of modern human behaviour, and that social mechanisms for incorporating autistic difference are visible in the archaeological record and that these develop sporadically from 160,000 years bp in association with evidence for their consequences in terms of technological innovations, improved efficiency in technological and natural spheres and innovative thinking.
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The beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in the Iranian Zagros. A taphonomic approach and techno-economic comparison of Early Baradostian assemblages from Warwasi and Yafteh (Iran).
TL;DR: The techno-typological Middle Paleolithic character of the Warwasi lithic assemblage permits a discussion of a possible in situ dependence/continuum from the Mousterian or perhaps particular activities linked to the type of the occupation of the site.
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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.