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
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity
TL;DR: It is argued that temporal changes in human craniofacial morphology reflect reductions in average androgen reactivity, which in turn reflect the evolution of enhanced social tolerance since the Middle Pleistocene.
Journal ArticleDOI
Spatial Organization of Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel
Nira Alperson-Afil,Gonen Sharon,Mordechai E. Kislev,Yoel Melamed,Irit Zohar,Irit Zohar,Irit Zohar,Shosh Ashkenazi,Rivka Rabinovich,Rebecca Biton,Ella Werker,Gideon Hartman,Craig S. Feibel,Naama Goren-Inbar +13 more
TL;DR: The results of spatial analyses of a Middle Pleistocene Acheulian archaeological horizon at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel, indicate that hominins differentiated their activities (stone knapping, tool use, floral and faunal processing and consumption) across space.
Journal ArticleDOI
Neandertals, competition, and the origin of modern human behavior in the Levant
TL;DR: In this article, a revised chronostratigraphy for Levantine Middle Paleolithic human fossils raises interesting questions about the evolutionary relationship between Neandertals and early modern humans and moves us closer to understanding the long delay between the origin of morphologically modern-looking humans during the Middle-Paleolithic (>130 Kyr) and the adaptive radiation of modern humans into Eurasia around the time of the transition from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic (50 to 30 Kyr).
Journal ArticleDOI
New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains.
TL;DR: The seven quartz ages and four K-feldspar ages provide improved temporal constraints on the archaeological sequence at Mumba, and how the revised chronology fits in the context of existing archaeological records and palaeoclimatic reconstructions for East Africa is discussed.
Book
Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective
TL;DR: This book discusses human evolution in the Pleistocene, the modern human-Neanderthal problem, and the conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last Glacial Cycle.
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.