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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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EDITORIAL Absence of post-Miocene Red Sea land bridges: biogeographic implications
TL;DR: It is unequivocally demonstrated that palaeoceanographic andPalaeoecological data are incompatible with the existence of Red Sea land bridges since the Miocene, which has extensive implications for biogeographic models in the Afro-Arabian region.
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The first modern human dispersals across Africa.
Teresa Rito,Martin B. Richards,Verónica Fernandes,Verónica Fernandes,Farida Alshamali,Viktor Cerny,Luísa Pereira,Pedro Soares +7 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that the last common ancestor of modern human mtDNAs possibly arose in central Africa ~180 ka, at a time of low population size, and may have been responsible for the spread of southern click-consonant languages to eastern Africa, contrary to the view that these eastern examples constitute relicts of an ancient, much wider distribution.
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Climate and Demography in Early Prehistory: Using Calibrated 14 C Dates as Population Proxies
TL;DR: It is argued that the authors cannot sideline climatic and environmental factors or extreme geophysical events in their reconstructions of prehistoric culture change, and that a greater awareness of demographic processes, and in particular of demographic declines, provides many fresh insights into what structured the archaeological record.
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The Aterian and its place in the North African Middle Stone Age
TL;DR: This paper critically reviews the meaning and history of research of the Aterian and demonstrates the existence of population structure in the North African MSA, which has important implications for the evolutionary dynamics of modern human dispersals.
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Early evidence of complexity in lithic economy: core-axe production, hafting and use at Late Middle Pleistocene site 8-B-11, Sai Island (Sudan)
Veerle Rots,Philip Van Peer +1 more
TL;DR: Wear analysis indicates that Sangoan core-axes from site 8-B-11 at Sai Island, Sudan, were used while hafted by the Sangoans.
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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.