Climate, environment and early human innovation: Stable isotope and faunal proxy evidence from archaeological sites (98-59ka) in the southern Cape, South Africa.

The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa, and in particular its Still Bay and Howiesons Poort lithic traditions, represents a period of dramatic subsistence, cultural, and technological innovation by our species, Homo sapiens. Climate change has frequently been postulated as a primary driver of...

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Main Authors: Roberts, P, Henshilwood, C, van Niekerk, K, Keene, P, Gledhill, A, Reynard, J, Badenhorst, S, Lee-Thorp, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016