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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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Lethal threshold : the evolutionary implications of Middle Pleistocene wooden spears
TL;DR: In this article, the use of wooden spears in the Middle Pleistocene has been examined through three research strands: qualitative and quantitative analyses, and a morphometric analysis of a large sample of spears from museum collections in the UK and Australia.
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Background to Neanderthal presence in Western Mediterranean Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a background to Neanderthal presence in Western Mediterranean Europe, and provide evidence of coordinated retrieval and treatment of body-parts of large ungulates.
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The Neanderthals: a Social Synthesis
Robert Davies,Simon Underdown +1 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed the current lines of thought about Neanderthals and explored the validity of the conclusions and constructed a social synthesis, a solid foundation upon which the validity of inferences regarding Neanderthal cognitive ability and behavioural complexity may be examined.
What was ground?: a functional analysis of grinding stones from Madjedbebe and Lake Mungo, Australia
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Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record
Daniela Eugenia Rosso,Daniela Eugenia Rosso,Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico,Alain Queffelec +4 more
TL;DR: Analysis of the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage found at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia, spanning a period of at least 4,500 years identifies patterns of continuity reflecting both persistent use of the same geological resources and similar uses of iron-rich rocks by late MSA Porc -Epic inhabitants.
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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.