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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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Late Pleistocene age and archaeological context for the hominin calvaria from GvJm-22 (Lukenya Hill, Kenya)
Christian A. Tryon,Isabelle Crevecoeur,J. Tyler Faith,Ravid Ekshtain,Joelle Nivens,David B. Patterson,Emma Mbua,Fred Spoor +7 more
TL;DR: Detailed chronological, archaeological, and human paleontological analyses of the GvJm-22 rock shelter and Kenya National Museums Lukenya Hill Hominid 1 partial calvaria constrain the age of major behavioral changes among African foragers (the shift to Later Stone Age technologies) and demonstrate the morphological distinctness of Late Pleistocene African hominins.
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Dating the origin of language using phonemic diversity.
Charles Perreault,Sarah Mathew +1 more
TL;DR: This work uses a natural experiment, the colonization of Southeast Asia and Andaman Islands, to estimate the rate at which phonemic diversity increases through time, and estimates that present-day languages date back to the Middle Stone Age in Africa.
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Human maritime subsistence strategies in the Lesser Sunda Islands during the terminal Pleistocene–early Holocene: New evidence from Alor, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present survey and excavation data from the site of Tron Bon Lei on the small island of Alor in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, and find no evidence that terrestrial fauna made up a significant component of the subsistence activities undertaken at this site.
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The question of Upper Pleistocene connections between East Africa and South Arabia
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Tracking the origin and evolution of human populations in Arabia
TL;DR: The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula has been explored in this article, showing that the region played a central role in the dispersal of our species and closely related ancestors and that it is a critical geographic position linking Africa, Europe, and Asia.
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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.