Journal ArticleDOI
The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
Sally McBrearty,Alison S. Brooks +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Thinking strings: additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa.
Marian Vanhaeren,Francesco d'Errico,Francesco d'Errico,Karen L. van Niekerk,Christopher S. Henshilwood,Christopher S. Henshilwood,Rudolph M. Erasmus +6 more
TL;DR: Contextual information, morphometric, technological and use-wear analysis, coupled with experimental reproduction of wear patterns, allow us to reconstruct the most probable way in which the N. kraussianus shells were strung at Blombos Cave.
Journal ArticleDOI
Oceans, Islands, and Coasts: Current Perspectives on the Role of the Sea in Human Prehistory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some current issues in island and coastal archaeology, including: (1) the antiquity of coastal adaptations and maritime migrations; (2) variations in marine or coastal productivity; (3) the development of specialized maritime technologies and capabilities; (4) underwater archaeology and drowned terrestrial landscapes; (5) cultural responses to insularity, isolation, and circumscription; (6) cultural contacts and historical processes; (7) human impacts and historical ecology in islands and coastal ecosystems; and (8) the conservation and management of island...
Journal ArticleDOI
Limited global change due to the largest known Quaternary eruption, Toba ≈74 kyr BP?
TL;DR: The Toba super-eruption of Toba volcano in Sumatra is the largest known Quaternary eruption and has been estimated at ≈7×10 15 ǫ kg (≈2800 km 3 of dense magma).
Journal ArticleDOI
Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior: perspectives from cave PP13B, Pinnacle Point, South Africa.
TL;DR: This paper reports on the abundance of marine invertebrate species from PP13B cave and interpret these abundances in terms of paleoenvironmental changes, the likely shellfish procurement behaviors involved in both rocky and sandy shore contexts, and the significance of the collection of marine shells for purposes other than food collection.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ochre in hafting in Middle Stone Age southern Africa: a practical role
TL;DR: The authors used microscopic examination of Middle Stone Age tools to show they had been hafted, making use of an adhesive compound which included ochre in its recipe.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.