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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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Weathering relationships : the intra-action of people with climate in Himalayan India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to improve the accuracy of the 3.4.4-score, i.e., 2.5.0.0-0.
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Edge length and surface area of a blank: Experimental assessment of measures, size predictions and utility
TL;DR: Which currently employed caliper measurement methods result in the highest accuracy of size estimations of blanks, and how platform variables can be used to indirectly infer aspects of size on retouched artifacts are evaluated.
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Rainbow colour and power among the Waanyi of Northwest Queensland
TL;DR: In 2002, an investigation into the rock art of Waanyi country was undertaken in conjunction with ongoing archaeological excavation as discussed by the authors, where a large number of rainbow-like designs, in red or red-and-yellow, were recorded, along with a magnificent and very large red and yellow Rainbow Serpent.
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Nutritional values of tortoises relative to ungulates from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for foraging and social behaviour
TL;DR: This study uses published data to estimate the number of calories present in tortoises as well as ungulates of different body size classes common at South African sites, which likely precipitated changes in the social roles of hunters and gatherers during the Still Bay.
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Docosahexaenoic acid, the aquatic diet, and hominin encephalization: Difficulties in establishing evolutionary links
TL;DR: From a nutrient‐based perspective, it is suggested that consumption of LNA, available in a wider variety of sources within a number of terrestrial ecosystems, is sufficient for normal brain development and maintenance in modern humans and presumably the authors' ancestors.
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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.