Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa

By C. Henshilwood, Francesco d'Errico, R. Yates, Z. Jacobs, C. Tribolo, G. Duller, N. Mercier, J. Sealy, H. Valladas, Ian Watts and 1 more. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology

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The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind (2009, background): “…often been suggested that music and the arts appeared in Homo sapiens concurrently with a variety of other cultural practices including language (Henshilwood et al., 2002; Mithen, 1996; Morley, 2002), with Huron (2001) and Fitch (2006) conservatively placing the emergence of music between…”
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age. (2005, background): “Thermoluminescence (TL) dates for five burnt lithic samples from the M1 phase have provided ages ranging between 67G 7 ka and 82G 8 ka with a mean of 77G 6 ka (Henshilwood et al., 2002; Tribolo, 2003).”
Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites (2013, background): “Artefacts like beads and engravings made on ostrich eggshell, stone or ochre are significant cultural markers and they represent new behaviour from at least 100 kya onwards (for example, Henshilwood et al. 2002; 2009; Texier et al. 2010), but they are preserved at few sites at this early date.”
The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic (2011, background): “Ochre use appears at Kapthurin 280 ka (McBrearty & Brooks 2000) and is present at site PP13B, Pinnacle Point, 160 ka ago (Marean et al. 2007), at Sai Island (Van Peer et al. 2003) and well established at Blombos Cave in deposits dated to 80 ka (Henshilwood et al. 2002).”
Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Sediments over the Past 200,000 Years (2011, methodology): “…SAR, OSL age estimates may be determined for single quartz grains (Murray & Roberts 1997), an approach now applied routinely to help overcome limitations provided by incomplete signal zeroing in environments such as caves (e.g., Henshilwood et al. 2002) or flood deposits (e.g., Rhodes et al. 2010).”
Coastal South Africa and the Coevolution of the Modern Human Lineage and the Coastal Adaptation (2011, background): “2005), large quantities of worked and unworked pigments (Watts 1999, 2002), decorated ochre (Henshilwood et al. 2002; Mackay and Welz 2008), and most recently lithic heat treatment (Brown et al.”
Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future (2015, background): “Indeed, archaeological questions have 380 motivated many of the key developments in single-grain optical dating (Roberts et al., 1997, 1998a, 1998b, 381 1999; Henshilwood et al., 2002; Jacobs et al., 2003, 2006b, 2008c, 2013).”