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Middle Stone Age archaeology at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Quaternary International, 2014
Abstract This paper describes the motivation, procedures, and results of archaeological and geological field survey of the Ndutu Unit, Olduvai Gorge, conducted in June and July of 2013. Survey focused upon the area of Olduvai Gorge between the second fault and the Obalbal depression, although selective survey occurred in other areas in and around the
Metin I. Eren, Adam J. Durant, Mary Prendergast, Audax Z.P. Mabulla   +3 more
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Southern African Middle Stone Age

Currently the concept of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) denotes the period between c. 300 and 25 ka. It is a phase marked by prepared core reduction methods used to knap predetermined flakes and blades that are occasionally retouched into various types of tools.
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The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age

1982
The 'Middle Palaeolithic', or the 'Middle Stone Age', is part of the prehistoric cultural record that follows the Lower Palaeolithic or Earlier Stone Age, and precedes the Upper Palaeolithic or Later Stone Age. The Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age makes its first appearance more than 100000 years ago during the Last Interglacial, in Africa a time ...
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Mozambican Grass Seed Consumption During the Middle Stone Age

Science, 2009
Seed for Food The seeds of grain-producing plants are more difficult to harvest than nuts or fruits as food. It has been unclear when early humans began to rely extensively on grains, but Mercader (p. 1680 ) has discovered films of starch residues on stone tools at a cave site in ...
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A Comparison of Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age Blades from South Africa

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2008
AbstractThe Middle Stone Age (MSA, ca. 250,000 to 25,000 B.P.) and the Later Stone Age (LSA, ca. 25,000 to 2000 B.P.) provide the cultural backdrops for the evolution of modern humans in Africa. The LSA has been long regarded as the period during which modern forms of behavior were widely adopted. Over the last decade evidence of modern behavior in the
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Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age Transition in Eastern Africa

The Middle Stone Age (MSA) to Later Stone Age (LSA) transition has roots in the MSA, and the latter is thus a watershed for many of the behavioral and technological transformations seen in the LSA. These include modern behavioral traits of miniaturization of artifacts in the Later Pleistocene, personal adornment, and long-distance exchange of obsidian.
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Southern and Eastern Africa Middle Stone Age

2001
RELATIVE TIME PERIOD: Follows and partially overlaps with the Achulean tradition, precedes the Southern and Eastern Africa Later Stone Age tradition.
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Middle Stone Age humans in high-altitude Africa

Science, 2019
Paleoanthropology Recent archaeological research has produced evidence of the earliest human occupation of high-altitude habitats in the Andes and the Tibetan Plateau. Ossendorf et al. now present the oldest evidence of human settlement and adaptation to areas above 4000-meter elevation in Africa (see the Perspective by Aldenderfer).
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On Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age Hominid Taxonomy

Current Anthropology, 1990
Milford H. Wolpoff, Rachel Caspari
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Middle-Stone-Age-Fundstellen in Südwest-Namibia

1998
Since the earliest appearance of modern Homo sapiens is assumed in the Middle Stone Age, this particular period is of great significance in the prehistoric development of the whole of southern Africa. This is all the more endorsed by the sensational discovery of painted slabs at the site “Apollo 11” in the southern part of Namibia.
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