North African Origins of Symbolically Mediated Behaviour and the Aterian

The appearance of personal ornaments in the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age of North Africa has been widely recognised as indicating that archaic modern humans in this region had developed sophisticated ways of sharing, storing and transmitting coded information within and across groups. In thi...

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Main Authors: Barton, N, d'Errico, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012