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Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?FRANCESCO D'ERRICO
CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1060-9. 2011....
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South AfricaFRANCESCO D'ERRICO
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199, De la Préhistoire à l Actuel Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie, Universite Bordeaux I, F 33405 Talence, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:13214-9. 2012....
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone AgeFRANCESCO D'ERRICO
CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA, Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, Avenue des Facultes, F 33405 Talence Cedex, France
J Hum Evol 48:3-24. 2005..The likely symbolic significance of these finds suggests levels of cognitively modern behaviour not previously associated with MSA people...
Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone AgeFRANCESCO D'ERRICO
Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA, Universite Bordeaux 1, Avenue des Facultes, F 33405 Talence, France
J Hum Evol 52:142-63. 2007..New discoveries of bone tools dating to this time period can be expected...
Out of Africa: modern human origins special feature: additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North AfricaFRANCESCO D'ERRICO
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199, De la Préhistoire à l Actuel Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie, University of Bordeaux, Talence 33405, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:16051-6. 2009..Our results suggest that further inquiry is necessary into the mechanisms of cultural transmission within early Homo sapiens populations...
Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusionWilliam E Banks
Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199 PACEA, Universite Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France
PLoS ONE 3:e3972. 2008..Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH)...
Testing the hypothesis of fire use for ecosystem management by neanderthal and upper palaeolithic modern human populationsAnne Laure Daniau
EPHE, CNRS UMR5805, EPOC, Universite Bordeaux 1, Talence, France
PLoS ONE 5:e9157. 2010....
Thinking strings: Additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South AfricaMarian Vanhaeren
Universite Bordeaux 1, CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA, Equipe Préhistoire, Paléoenvironnement, Patrimoine, Avenue des Facultes, F 33405 Talence, France Electronic address
J Hum Evol 64:500-17. 2013..The Blombos Cave beads may document one of the first examples of changes in social norms affecting the production and design of symbolic material culture...
Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early AurignacianWilliam E Banks
CNRS, UMR 5199 PACEA, Universite Bordeaux 1, Bâtiment B18, Avenue des Facultes, 33405 Talence, France
J Hum Evol 64:39-55. 2013..These shifts in both the eco-cultural niche and material culture are interpreted to represent an adaptive response to the relative deterioration of environmental conditions at the onset of HS4...
Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartzZenobia Jacobs
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Hum Evol 51:255-73. 2006....
The origin of modern human behaviorChristopher S Henshilwood
Centre for Development Studies, Univesity of Bergen, Norway, and State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Curr Anthropol 44:627-51. 2003..To provide adequate tests of these models, archaeologists must first subject these test implications to rigorous discussion, which is initiated here...
Additional human remains from Blombos Cave, South Africa: (1999-2000 excavations)Frederick E Grine
Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA
J Hum Evol 42:293-302. 2002..The morphology of the Blombos Cave di is comparable to MSA homologues from the nearby, and presumably somewhat younger site of Die Kelders Cave 1...
Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South AfricaChristopher S Henshilwood
Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South African Museum, Post Office Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
Science 295:1278-80. 2002..These engravings support the emergence of modern human behavior in Africa at least 35,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic...
