A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Eastern Africa has played a prominent role in debates about human evolution and dispersal due to the presence of rich archaeological, palaeoanthropological and palaeoenvironmental records.
Lucy Timbrell +4 more
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Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The African Middle Stone Age (MSA, typically considered to span ca. 300–30 thousand years ago [ka]), represents our species’ first and longest lasting cultural phase.
Eleanor M. L. Scerri +8 more
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A late Middle Pleistocene Middle Stone Age sequence identified at Wadi Lazalim in southern Tunisia [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The late Middle Pleistocene, starting at around 300 ka, witnessed large-scale biological and cultural dynamics in hominin evolution across Africa including the onset of the Middle Stone Age that is closely associated with the evolution of our species ...
Emanuele Cancellieri +13 more
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An improved chronology for the Middle Stone Age at El Mnasra cave, Morocco. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 North African coastal Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites are key to study the development and expansion of early H. sapiens. El Mnasra cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco (Témara region) is a crucial site associated with MSA archaeological materials ...
Eslem Ben Arous +11 more
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Middle Stone Age human teeth from Magubike rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 In 2006, six isolated hominin teeth were excavated from Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits at the Magubike rockshelter in southern Tanzania. They comprise two central incisors, one lateral incisor, one canine, one third premolar, and one fourth premolar ...
Pamela R Willoughby +5 more
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Bone retouchers and technological continuity in the Middle Stone Age of North Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Evidence for specialised bone tools has recently been reported for the Middle Stone Age of North Africa [one], which complements similar finds of slightly younger age in South Africa [two, three].
Elaine Turner +3 more
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The driving force behind tool-stone selection in the African Middle Stone Age. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AIn the Stone Age, the collection of specific rocks was the first step in tool making. Very little is known about the choices made during tool-stone acquisition. Were choices governed by the knowledge of, and need for, specific properties of stones? Or were the collected raw materials a mere by-product of the way people moved through the landscape?
Schmidt P +4 more
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Human exploitation of nocturnal felines at Diepkloof Rock Shelter provides further evidence for symbolic behaviours during the Middle Stone Age. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Val A +4 more
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Is early silcrete heat treatment a new behavioural proxy in the Middle Stone Age? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The South African Middle Stone Age (MSA) has in recent years become increasingly important for our understanding of the emergence of 'modern human behaviours'.
Regine E Stolarczyk, Patrick Schmidt
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Southern African Field ArchaeologyZimbabwe is home to numerous well-preserved deposits spanning from the Earlier to the Later Stone Age. However, research on the Middle Stone Age has been limited, with most studies conducted during the colonial era.
Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise
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