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78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

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dc.contributor.authorShipton, Ceri
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorArcher, Will
dc.contributor.authorArmitage, Simon J
dc.contributor.authorBita, Caesar
dc.contributor.authorBlinkhorn, James
dc.contributor.authorCourtney-Mustaphi, Colin
dc.contributor.authorCrowther, Alison
dc.contributor.authorCurtis, Richard
dc.contributor.authord'Errico, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorDouka, Katerina
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-03T00:14:13Z
dc.date.available2019-12-03T00:14:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-06-23T08:17:10Z
dc.description.abstractThe Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Following a shift in toolkits ~67,000 years ago, novel symbolic and technological behaviors assemble in a non-unilinear manner. Against a backdrop of a persistent tropical forest-grassland ecotone, localized innovations better characterize the Late Pleistocene of this part of East Africa than alternative emphases on dramatic revolutions or migrations.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding was provided by the SEALINKS project under a European Research Council (ERC) grant (no. 206148) awarded to N.B. Permission to conduct the research was granted by the Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya through affiliation with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). We are grateful for the support of the NMK and the British Institute in Eastern Africa. P.R. was funded by NERC and the Boise Fund (University of Oxford). S.J.A. and F.D. acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway, through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) (no. 262618). FD and AP were funded by the ERC grant, TRACSYMBOLS (no. 249587), and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10- LABX-52), LaScArBx Cluster of Excellence. A.P.M. holds a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship (2014 BP-A 00122) from the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, Government of Catalonia. A.C. and H.S.G. were funded by the British Academy. Additional support has been provided by the McDonald Institute for Archeological Research (University of Cambridge) and the Max Planck Society.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/187192
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/.en_AU
dc.publisherMacmillan Publishers Ltden_AU
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2018en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceNature Communicationsen_AU
dc.title78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical foresten_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1832en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage8en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationShipton, Ceri, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRoberts, Patrick, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human Historyen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationArcher, Will, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropologyen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationArmitage, Simon J, Royal Holloway University of Londonen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBita, Caesar, National Museums of Kenyaen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBlinkhorn, James, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human Historyen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCourtney-Mustaphi, Colin, University of Yorken_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCrowther, Alison, University of Queenslanden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCurtis, Richard, La Trobe Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationd'Errico, Francesco, University of Bergenen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDouka, Katerina, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human Historyen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidShipton, Ceri, u1052354en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor210103 - Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americasen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970121 - Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4485658xPUB2015en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume9en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85046866268
local.identifier.thomsonID000431741800001
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.nature.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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