The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior.
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...This mutation, the authors suggest, most probably took place in Africa at c. 50,0000 years ago (Klein, 1995, 1999, 2000; Klein & Edgar, 2002; cf. Ambrose, 1998, and Wadley, 2001, 2003, for the archaeological counterpart of this hypothesis)....
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...In a recent article (Henshilwood et al., 2004) we report onmarine shells manufactured into beads by MSA populations at Blombos Cave, South Africa at c. 75 ka....
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...This work was supported by grants to F.D. from the European Science Foundation (Origin of Man, Language and Languages), the Service Culturel of the French Embassy in South Africa, the French Ministry of Research (ACI Espaces et Territoires); to C.H from the National Science Foundation, the South African National Research Foundation, Centre for Development Studies - University of Bergen, PAST, European Science Foundation (Origin of Man, Language and Languages); to M.V. from the French Ministry of Education and Research (Aires Culturelles), and the CNRS (post-doctoral fellowship); to K.v.N. from the University of Bergen....
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...Human remains from Herto, Ethiopia demonstrate that Homo sapiens in Africa was anatomically modern at 160 ka (White et al., 2003), but the debate continues over when and where humans first became behaviourally modern....
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...Personal ornaments, often cited as support for the second model above, are reported from eight South and East African MSA sites....
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...For much later periods, a greater control and more extensive use of fire is seen by some (12, 13) as one of the behavioral innovations that emerged in Africa among modern humans, favoring their spread throughout the world and their eventual evolutionary success....
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...In more general terms, a greater control and more extensive use of fire is sometimes (12) seen as one of the behavioral innovations that emerged in Africa among modern humans and favored the spread of modern humans throughout the world....
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