Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

The view that the Châtelperronian is the acculturation of late Neandertals brought about by
contact with nearby moderns assumes an age of ca. 40,000 years ago for the earliest …

Recent archaeological discoveries have revealed that pigment use, beads, engravings, and
sophisticated stone and bone tools were already present in southern Africa 75,000 y ago …

South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least
two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological …

A decade ago, we summarised the South African and Lesotho Stone Age technocomplex
sequence as a heuristic exercise, anchored in 242 dated assemblages (Lombard et al …

The later Pleistocene archaeological record of southernmost Africa encompasses several
Middle Stone Age industries and the transition to the Later Stone Age. Through this period …

The earliest known personal ornaments come from the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa,
c. 75,000 years ago, and are associated with anatomically modern humans. In Europe, such …

The transition from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA) in South Africa
was not associated with the appearance of anatomically modern humans and the extinction …

Recently discovered bone implements from Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits at Sibudu
Cave, South Africa, confirm the existence of a bone tool industry for the Howiesons Poort …

By 50,000 years ago, the effects of a 'symbolic explosion'—an efflorescence of human art,
song, dance and ritual—were rippling across the globe. Applied to archaeological evidence …