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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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Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa
Alex Mackay,Aara Welz +1 more
TL;DR: A piece of engraved ochre recovered from a Middle Stone Age context at the rock shelter site of Klein Kliphuis (Western Cape, South Africa) was associated with a mixed assemblage of Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesonspoort artefacts, suggesting that it is substantially younger than similar finds at Blombos Cave as mentioned in this paper.
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From hominins to humans: how sapiens became behaviourally modern.
TL;DR: It is argued that the model is evolutionarily plausible: the elements of the model can be assembled incrementally, without implausible selective scenarios, and the model coheres with the broad palaeoarchaeological record.
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Late Acheulean technology and cognition at Boxgrove, UK
TL;DR: Results demonstrate the technologically efficacious use of platform preparation among the Boxgrove toolmakers similar to 500 thousand years ago, providing the first direct evidence of this technique in the Ache-tile-an.
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When Neanderthals and modern humans met
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a wide-ranging and eclectic (in the best sense of the term) compendium of studies representing where our understanding of the Middle Upper Paleolithic transition stands at the close of the first decade of the 21st century.
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Hunting weapons of the Middle Stone Age and the Middle Palaeolithic: spear points from Sibudu, Rose Cottage and Bouheben
Paola Villa,Michel Lenoir +1 more
TL;DR: Villa et al. as mentioned in this paper compared Middle Stone Age points from two South African sites, Sibudu and Rose Cottage, with points from Bouheben, a Middle Palaeolithic/Final Acheulian site in SW France.
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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.