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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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Middle Stone Age archaeology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
TL;DR: In this article, an archaeological and geological field survey of the Ndutu Unit, Olduvai Gorge, conducted in June and July of 2013 is described, with the focus on the area of Olduvi Gorge between the second fault and the Obalbal depression, although selective survey occurred in other areas in and around the Gorge.
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Emerging economies : late Neolithic and Copper Age beads and pendants of the Portuguese Estremadura
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Ounjougou : a long Middle Stone Age sequence in the Dogon country (Mali)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new perspective of the Middle Stone Age in West Africa, using a complex of open-air sites at Ounjougou in Ivory Coast, where 30 archaeological levels belonging to the period have been identified within thick Pleistocene deposits, most of aeolian origin.
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The Origins of Symbolic Culture
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the Female Cosmetic Coalitions model of the origins of symbolic culture in the context of hypotheses sometimes considered to be alternative explanations, and shows that these various hypotheses are not genuine alternatives.
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The chronology of the levantine middle palaeolithic period in retrospect
Ofer Bar-Yosef,Liliane Meignen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a bilan des hypotheses longtemps defendues par les differents specialistes sur la base des donnees de chronologie relative (donnees biostratigraphiques and geologiques) is proposed.
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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.