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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27249| Appears in Collections: | Biological and Environmental Sciences Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest |
| Author(s): | Shipton, Ceri Roberts, Patrick Archer, Will Armitage, Simon J Bita, Caesar Blinkhorn, James Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin Crowther, Alison Curtis, Richard d'Errico, Francesco Douka, Katerina Faulkner, Patrick Groucutt, Huw S Helm, Richard Kourampas, Nikos |
| Keywords: | Archaeology Palaeoecology |
| Issue Date: | 9-May-2018 |
| Date Deposited: | 15-May-2018 |
| Citation: | Shipton C, Roberts P, Archer W, Armitage SJ, Bita C, Blinkhorn J, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Crowther A, Curtis R, d'Errico F, Douka K, Faulkner P, Groucutt HS, Helm R & Kourampas N (2018) 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature Communications, 9 (1), Art. No.: 1832. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3 |
| Abstract: | The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Following a shift in toolkits ~67,000 years ago, novel symbolic and technological behaviors assemble in a non-unilinear manner. Against a backdrop of a persistent tropical forest-grassland ecotone, localized innovations better characterize the Late Pleistocene of this part of East Africa than alternative emphases on dramatic revolutions or migrations. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3 |
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| Notes: | Additional co-authors: Andy I. R Herries, Severinus Jembe, Julia Lee-Thorp, Rob Marchant, Julio Mercader, Africa Pitarch Marti, Mary E. Prendergast, Ben Rowson, Amini Tengeza, Ruth Tibesasa, Tom S. White, Michael D. Petraglia & Nicole Boivin |
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