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Sidon’s ancient harbour: natural characteristics and hazards

open access: yes, 2011
Carayon, N., Marriner, N., Morhange, C.
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Geoarchaeology at Gi, a middle stone age and later stone age site in the Northwest Kalahari

Journal of Archaeological Science, 1983
Abstract Gi with sealed middle stone age and later stone age occurrences is located in the Dobe Valley along the Botswana-Namibia border. The phases of middle stone age settlement were linked to a semiarid streamway during the early Upper Pleistocene. A major humid interval followed, when a large lake was ponded in the Dobe Valley.
Alison S Brooks
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The Middle Stone Age south of the Limpopo River

Journal of World Prehistory, 1992
Current interest in the origins of anatomically modernHomo sapiens has focused attention on early modern human remains and related archaeological materials associated with the southern African Middle Stone Age. While the anatomically modern status and a Last Interglacial or later age for the human fossils enjoy general support, issues related to the ...
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The African Middle Stone Age

2022
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) is a period of African prehistory characterized by the production of flake-based assemblages, often with a focus on stone points and blades using prepared core reduction techniques. The MSA follows the Earlier Stone Age and precedes the Later Stone Age, although the boundaries between these periods are not as sharp as ...
Alexander F. Blackwood, Jayne Wilkins
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Middle Stone Age cooking

Science, 2020
Archaeology Early evidence of cooked starchy plant food is sparse, yet the consumption of starchy roots is likely to have been a key innovation in the human diet. Wadley et al. report the identification of whole, charred rhizomes of plants of the genus Hypoxis from Border Cave, South Africa, dated up to 170,000 years ago. These archaeobotanical remains
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Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa

Science, 1975
Three potassium-argon age determinations on sanidine from crystalrich pantellerite and volcanic ash in the Main Rift Valley of central Ethiopia indicate that the Middle Stone Age of East Africa began prior to 180,000 years ago. This suggests that the technological developments which characterize the Middle Stone Age have a far greater antiquity than ...
F, Wendorf   +7 more
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The Middle Stone Age in Africa

Science, 2018
Paleoanthropology The Olorgesailie basin in the southern Kenya rift valley contains sediments dating back to 1.2 million years ago, preserving a long archaeological record of human activity and environmental conditions. Three papers present the oldest East African evidence of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and elucidate the system of technology and ...
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Late Stone Age and Middle Stone Age Tool-Makers

The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 1972
Late Stone Age and Middle Stone Age tool-makers. Read to Witwatersrand Centre of S.A.A.S (South African Archaeological Society), November 1972.
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