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 …

Organized flaking techniques to obtain predetermined stone tools have been traced back to
the early Acheulean (also known as mode 2) in Africa and are seen as indicative of the …

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 …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Abstract The Kalahari Basin, southern Africa preserves a rich archeological record of human
origins and evolution spanning the Early, Middle and Late Pleistocene. Since the 1930s …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

An apparently unique part of the Earlier Stone Age record of Africa are a series of bone tools
dated to between∼ 2 and∼ 1 Ma from the sites of Olduvai in East Africa, and Swartkrans …

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 …

The Fauresmith was a term first coined by archaeologists in the 1920s to describe a cultural
development intermediate between the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages. From the late 1960s …

A growing number of authors have discussed the role of climate change in periods of
important biological and cultural transition along the hominin lineage. This paper …