[HTML][HTML] The revolution that still isn't: The origins of behavioral complexity in Homo sapiens

EML Scerri, M Will - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
The behavioral origins of Homo sapiens can be traced back to the first material culture
produced by our species in Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Beyond this broad …

The emergence and intensification of early hunter‐gatherer niche construction

JC Thompson, DK Wright… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hunter‐gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well‐represented in
archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in sha** …

[HTML][HTML] Lacustrine geoarchaeology in the central Kalahari: Implications for Middle Stone Age behaviour and adaptation in dryland conditions

DSG Thomas, SL Burrough, SD Coulson… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Stone Age (MSA) was a time of great human adaptation and innovation.
In southern Africa, coastal locations have been viewed as key places for the development of …

[책][B] Explaining technology

R Koppl, RC Gatti, A Devereaux, BD Fath, J Herriot… - 2023 - cambridge.org
A long tradition explains technological change as recombination. Within this tradition, this
Element develops an innovative combinatorial model of technological change and tests it …

Culture and convergence: The curious case of the Nubian Complex

HS Groucutt - Culture history and convergent evolution: Can we …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract 'Nubian Levallois' lithic technology has been found from South Africa to India, it
occurs sporadically over a period of more than two hundred thousand years, and it appears …

Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations

L Timbrell, B Habte, Y Tefera, C Maroma… - … Research in Africa, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Stone points are one of the key features used to define the African Middle Stone Age (MSA).
Regional patterns in their shape and size through time have been thought to reflect inter …

A marine isotope stage 11 coastal Acheulian workshop with associated wood at Amanzi Springs Area 1, South Africa

AIR Herries, LJ Arnold, G Boschian, AF Blackwood… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Amanzi Springs is a series of inactive thermal springs located near Kariega in the Eastern
Cape of South Africa. Excavations in the 1960s exposed rare, stratified Acheulian-bearing …

The emergence of the Levallois technology in the Levant: A view from the Early Middle Paleolithic site of Misliya Cave, Israel

Y Zaidner, M Weinstein-Evron - Journal of human evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Middle Paleolithic (EMP) lithic assemblage of Misliya Cave, dated to 240–
150 ka, is associated with one of the earliest occurrences of Homo sapiens outside Africa …

Predetermined refinement: The earliest Levallois of the Kapthurin formation

C Shipton - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2022 - Springer
Levallois technology characterizes the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic, but one of its
earliest manifestations is from the preceding Acheulean of the Kapthurin Formation, in the …

More than surface finds: Nubian Levallois core metric variability and site distribution across Africa and Southwest Asia

O Samawi, E Hallinan - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2024 - Springer
Nubian Levallois cores are currently one of the most debated artefact types in Palaeolithic
archaeology. Previous work has focused mainly on the definition and technological …