78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
Shipton, Ceri (Australian National University. Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage)
Roberts, Patrick (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Department of Archaeology)
Archer, Will (University of Cape Town. Department of Archaeology)
Armitage, Simon J. (University of Bergen. SSF Centre for Early Sapiens Behavior)
Bita, Caesar (Malindi Museum, National Museums of Kenya)
Blinkhorn, James (University of Liverpool. Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology)
Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin (University of York, Heslington. Department Environment)
Crowther, Alison (The University of Queensland. School of Social Sciences)
Curtis, Richard (La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus. Department of Archaeology and History)
Errico, Francesco d' (Université de Bordeaux)
Douka, Katerina (Dyson Perrins Building. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art)
Faulkner, Patrick (The University of Sydney. Department of Archaeology)
Groucutt, Huw S. (University of Oxford. School of Archaeology)
Helm, Richard (Canterbury Archaeological Trust)
Herries, Andy I. R.. (La Trobe University. Department of Archaeology and History)
Jembe, Severinus (National Museums of Kenya. Coastal Forests Conservation Unit)
Kourampas, Nikos (University of Stirling. Biological and Environmental Sciences)
Lee-Thorp, Julia (University of Oxford. School of Archaeology)
Marchant, Robert (University of Liverpool. Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology)
Mercader, Julio (University of Calgary. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology)
Pitarch Martí, Àfrica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Prendergast, Mary E. (Saint Louis University. Department of Sociology and Anthropology)
Rowson, Ben (National Museum Wales. Invertebrate Biodiversity)
Tengeza, Amini (National Museums of Kenya. Coastal Forests Conservation Unit)
Tibesasa, Ruth (University of Pretoria. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology)
White, Tom S. (The Natural History Museum. Department of Life Sciences)
Petraglia, Michael D. (Smithsonian Institution. Human Origins Program)
Boivin, Nicole (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Department of Archaeology)

Date:	2018
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.
Grants:	European Commission 206148 European Commission 249587 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/BP-A00122
Note:	Aquest article té una correcció a 10.1038/s41467-018-04753-0
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Nature communications, Vol. 9 (May 2018) , art. 1832, ISSN 2041-1723

Correcció de l'article: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/253549
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3
PMID: 29743572

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