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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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Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa.
J. Tyler Faith,Christian A. Tryon,Daniel J. Peppe,Emily J. Beverly,Nick Blegen,Scott A. Blumenthal,Kendra L. Chritz,Steven G. Driese,David B. Patterson +8 more
TL;DR: A combination of sedimentological, paleontological, and stable isotopic evidence indicates a semi-arid environment characterized by seasonal precipitation and the dominance of C4 grasslands, likely associated with a substantial reduction in Lake Victoria, in agreement with predictions from genetic observations.
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Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone:: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea
J. Henrich Bruggemann,J. Henrich Bruggemann,Richard T. Buffler,Mireille Guillaume,Robert Walter,Rudo von Cosel,Berhane N. Ghebretensae,Seife M. Berhe +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Abdur Reef Limestone (ARL) is divided into three subunits, named 5e1, 5e2 and 5e3, representing different stages of the marine isotope stage 5e sea level highstand, comprising six depositional phases (I-VI) of the ARL.
News and Views Raw material use and behavioral modernity: Howiesons Poort lithic foraging strategies
TL;DR: In this paper, Deacon and Deacon revisited the use of raw ma-terials in the Howieson's Poort (HP) in the southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA) and continued to try and explain a pattern of a marked increase of raw material use in compar-ison to other MSA components at Klasies.
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The Bab al Mandab vs the Nile-Levant: An Appraisal of the Two Dispersal Routes for Early Modern Humans Out of Africa
TL;DR: The authors examined the Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age archaeological evidence from the Horn of Africa, the Nile Valley/eastern Sahara, the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant, and assesses their relevance to this question.
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A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania.
TL;DR: Data from Nasera rockshelter (Tanzania) are used to suggest that the MSA–LSA transition is part of a long-term pattern of changes in residential mobility and technology that reflect human responses to increased population density, with dispersals potentially marking a complementary response to larger populations.
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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.