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

By Curtis W. Marean, M. Bar-Matthews, Jocelyn Bernatchez, Erich C. Fisher, P. Goldberg, A. Herries, Z. Jacobs, A. Jerardino, P. Karkanas, T. Minichillo and 4 more. Nature, 2007

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Subfields: Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology

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An Unshakable Middle Paleolithic? (2013, background): “Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene.”
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Well described and clearly utilized ochre is present at ~162 at PP13B in South Africa (Marean et al 2007, Watts 2010), and pigments are reported from Twin Rivers in Zambia (Barham 1998, Barham 2002) but the age is contested (Barham 2012, Herries 2011).”
Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites (2013, background): “160 kya, such as Pinnacle Point (Marean et al. 2007).”
Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future (2015, background): “…yield valuable information about site integrity and the fidelity of optical 354 ages, especially when combined with studies of the sediment micromorphology (Jacobs and Roberts, 2007; 355 Marean et al., 2007; Feathers et al., 2010; Jacobs et al., 2011b; Araujo et al., 2013; Jankowski et al., 2015).”
The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic (2011, background): “Shellfish were exploited at Pinnacle Point 160 ka ago (Marean et al. 2007).”
Coastal South Africa and the Coevolution of the Modern Human Lineage and the Coastal Adaptation (2011, background): “True shell middens first appear early in MIS5; however, I do want to caution that the lack of true shell middens at earlier periods may partially reflect dissolution of shell, as clearly happened at PP13B in the LC-MSA (Marean et al. 2007).”
Working‐Memory Capacity and the Evolution of Modern Cognitive Potential (2010, background): “…as the settlement of islands and continents (Noble and Davidson 1996), the use of marine resources by seafaring, or the acceptance of indicators of probable preliminary stages, such as S150 Current Anthropology Volume 51, Supplement 1, June 2010 the use of mineral pigments (Marean et al. 2007).”
On the goethite to hematite phase transformation (2010, background): “As to hematite, a further point of interest is related to its use as a red pigment since prehistoric ages, in primitive cave paintings [4], through more recent periods [5], until present.”