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SUBMITTER: Villa P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3421194 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Villa Paola P Soriano Sylvain S Tsanova Tsenka T Degano Ilaria I Higham Thomas F G TF d'Errico Francesco F Backwell Lucinda L Lucejko Jeannette J JJ Colombini Maria Perla MP Beaumont Peter B PB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120730 33
The transition from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) to the Later Stone Age (LSA) in South Africa was not associated with the appearance of anatomically modern humans and the extinction of Neandertals, as in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Europe. It has therefore attracted less attention, yet it provides insights into patterns of technological evolution not associated with a new hominin. Data from Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal) show a strong pattern of technological change at appro ...[more]