The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity

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An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Manganese is abundant at Pech-de-l’Aze´ I dated to near the MP-UP boundary (D'Errico 2003, Soressi et al 2008).”
Beads for a Plastic Mind: the ‘Blind Man's Stick’ (BMS) Hypothesis and the Active Nature of Material Culture (2008, background): “Thus although we can debate the usefulness of notions like cognitive or behavioural modernity which dominate archaeological thinking (see for review d’Errico 2003; d’Errico et al. 2003; Mellars 1989; 1991) and are relevant to some dimensions of human cognitive evolution (e.g. syntactical language),…”
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age. (2005, background): “Symbolically mediated behaviour, however, has emerged as one of the few unchallenged and universally accepted markers of modernity (Chase & Dibble, 1987; McBrearty & Brooks, 2000; Wadley, 2001; d’Errico, 2003; Klein & Edgar, 2002, Hovers et al., 2003; Henshilwood & Marean, 2003; d’Errico et al., 200”