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Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari.
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- Evidence for Earlier Stone Age 'coastal use': The site of Dungo IV, Benguela Province, Angola.PloS one · 2023Review
- Pan-Africanism vs. single-origin of Homo sapiens: Putting the debate in the light of evolutionary biology.Evolutionary anthropology · 2022Review
- Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- From Veld to Coast: Towards an Understanding of the Diverse Landscapes' Uses by Past Foragers in Southern Africa.Journal of paleolithic archaeology · 2022Article
- Tufas indicate prolonged periods of water availability linked to human occupation in the southern Kalahari.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene sites in the montane forests of New Guinea yield early record of cassowary hunting and egg harvesting.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Homo sapiens origins and evolution in the Kalahari Basin, southern Africa.Evolutionary anthropology · 2021Review
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Abstract
The archaeological record of Africa provides the earliest evidence for the emergence of the complex symbolic and technological behaviours that characterize Homo sapiens
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