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4. An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

Author

Brown, Kyle S., Marean, Curtis W., Jacobs, Zenobia, Schoville, Benjamin J., Oestmo, Simen, Fisher, Erich C., Bernatchez, Jocelyn, Karkanas, Panagiotis, and Matthews, Thalassa

Subjects
Appropriate technology -- Methods, Stone implements -- Design and construction, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation
Abstract

There is consensus that the modern human lineage appeared in Africa before 100,000 years ago (1,2). But there is debate as to when cultural and cognitive characteristics typical of modern [...]

Published
2012

5. Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

Author

Marean, Curtis W., Bar-Matthews, Miryam, Bernatchez, Jocelyn, Fisher, Erich, Goldberg, Paul, Herries, Andy I.R., Jacobs, Zenobia, Jerardino, Antonieta, Karkanas, Panagiotis, Minichillo, Tom, Nilssen, Peter J., Thompson, Erin, Watts, Ian, and Williams, Hope M.

Subjects
Human evolution -- Research -- Usage, Marine resources -- Usage -- Research, Environmental issues, Science and technology, Zoology and wildlife conservation, Usage, Research, History
Abstract

Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200 and 100 thousand years (kyr) ago (1,2), and recent evidence indicates symbolic behaviour may have appeared ~135-75 [...]

Published
2007

6. Taphonomic implications of orientation of plotted finds from Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)

Author

Bernatchez, Jocelyn A.

Subjects
*PETROFABRIC analysis, *MESOLITHIC Period, *TAPHONOMY, *CAVES, *HOMINIDS
Abstract

Abstract: An understanding of site taphonomy is crucial to stratigraphic and artifact/ecofact interpretation. Numerous geogenic, biogenic, and anthropogenic activities have the potential to move artifacts after deposition and distort the patterning once present in hominid discarded debris. Taphonomy at a Middle Stone Age cave (Pinnacle Point 13B) near Mossel Bay, South Africa is investigated here using artifact orientation data collected during excavation. Two angle measurements (bearing and plunge) were taken for all artifacts with a distinct long axis. The data are analyzed here using both graphical and statistical approaches, and a new graphical approach is presented. Using these measurements it is possible to distinguish between layers and areas of the site that are minimally disturbed and those that have been reworked to varying degrees. Data of this type are still not usually presented in publications of stone age sites. Given the complexities of the taphonomic history of these ancient sites, such data and analyses should become standard practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2010
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