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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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Modern human teeth from Late Pleistocene Luna Cave (Guangxi, China)
TL;DR: In this paper, two previously unreported hominin permanent teeth [one right upper second molar (M2), one left lower second molars (m2)] from Lunadong (dong) cave, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China are presented.
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First molecular identification of a hafting adhesive in the Late Howiesons Poort at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)
Armelle Charrié-Duhaut,Guillaume Porraz,Caroline R. Cartwright,Marina Igreja,Jacques Connan,Cedric Poggenpoel,Pierre-Jean Texier +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on a chemical study of a thick black residue found on a quartz flake attributable to the Late phase of the Howiesons Poort (HP) and reconstructed a picture of the multilevel operations and interactions that comprise the process of hafting.
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The evolution and ages of makgadikgadi palaeo-lakes: consilient evidence from kalahari drainage evolution south-central africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a regional drainage evolution model that invokes tectonically initiated drainage reorganizations as the underlying control over lake evolution, which reveals that the antiquity of this lake complex has been widely underestimated.
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Explaining Shellfish Variability in Middens on the Meriam Islands, Torres Strait, Australia
TL;DR: It is found that while prey choice is predictable ethnographically, it is not reflected in the midden remains, and this result should be of interest to all researchers concerned with reconstructing and explaining variability in prehistoric subsistence practices, especially in coastal or island settings.
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From small holes to grand narratives: the impact of taphonomy and sample size on the modernity debate in Australia and New Guinea.
TL;DR: It is argued that differences in the nature of early modern human populations across the globe were more likely the consequence of differences in population size and density, interaction and historical contingency.
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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.