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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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Implications of the marked artifacts of the middle stone age of Africa
TL;DR: Study of the marked objects reported for the Middle Stone Age in Africa indicates that they are nonrepresentational, relatively small, and rare and that they may have been made in a single sitting with a design intended from the outset.
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Fragmented Landscapes and Economies of Abundance: The Broad-Spectrum Revolution in Arid East Asia
TL;DR: This study shows how broad-spectrum foraging, increased human population density, and the shift toward food production should be considered by-products of major environmental changes that created an ecological setting ideal for enhanced human reproduction.
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Shell we cook it? An experimental approach to the microarchaeological record of shellfish roasting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the microarchaeological traces and archaeological visibility of shellfish cooking activities through a series of experimental procedures with direct roasting using wood-fueled fires and controlled heating in a muffle furnace.
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Across Rainforests and Woodlands: A Systematic Reappraisal of the Lupemban Middle Stone Age in Central Africa
TL;DR: A review of existing knowledge of the earlier part of MIS 6-2 in the rainforests and woodlands of Central Africa from the perspective of the MSA Lupemban industry is presented in this article.
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Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa
Patrick Roberts,Patrick Roberts,Mary E. Prendergast,Anneke Janzen,Anneke Janzen,Ceri Shipton,James Blinkhorn,James Blinkhorn,Jana Zech,Alison Crowther,Alison Crowther,Elizabeth A. Sawchuk,Elizabeth A. Sawchuk,Mathew Stewart,Emmanuel Ndiema,Michael D. Petraglia,Michael D. Petraglia,Michael D. Petraglia,Nicole Boivin +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented chronologically resolved, zooarchaeological taxonomic and taphonomic analysis, and stable isotope analysis of human and faunal tooth enamel from the site of Panga ya Saidi (c. 78-0.4 ka), Kenya.
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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.