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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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Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa.
Andrew S. Cohen,Jeffery R. Stone,Kristina R.M. Beuning,Lisa E. Park,Peter N. Reinthal,David L. Dettman,Christopher A. Scholz,Thomas C. Johnson,John W. King,Michael R. Talbot,Erik T. Brown,Sarah J. Ivory +11 more
TL;DR: This record of lake levels and changing limnological conditions provides a framework for interpreting the evolution of the Lake Malawi fish and invertebrate species flocks and places new constraints on models of Afrotropical biogeographic refugia and early modern human population expansion into and out of tropical Africa.
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Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa
Francesco d'Errico,Marian Vanhaeren,Nick Barton,Abdeljalil Bouzouggar,Henk K. Mienis,Daniel Richter,Jean-Jacques Hublin,Shannon P. McPherron,Pierre Lozouet +8 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that Nassarius shells were consistently used for personal ornamentation in this region at the end of the last interglacial and suggested that further inquiry is necessary into the mechanisms of cultural transmission within early Homo sapiens populations.
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Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
TL;DR: Recently discovered bone implements from Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits at Sibudu Cave, South Africa, confirm the existence of a bone tool industry for the Howiesons Poort (HP) technocomplex as mentioned in this paper.
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Large Rivers : Geomorphology and Management
Avijit Gupta,Catarina Maçãs +1 more
TL;DR: Goodbred et al. as discussed by the authors studied the Ganges-brahmaputra river sediment in the Indian Ocean and found evidence for highstand dispersal to flod-plain, shelf and deepsea depocenters.
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Evidence of hunting and hafting during the Middle Stone Age at Sibidu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a multianalytical approach.
TL;DR: The study shows that points from Sibudu Cave were indeed hafted and used as hunting tools, and it was further established that plant twine was probably the preferred binding material to attach the points to wooden hafts.
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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.