In this contribution, we address a major puzzle in the evolution of human material culture: If
maturing individuals just learn their parental generation's material culture, then what is the …

The range of technological elements that marks the Middle Stone Age originated more than
300,000 years ago and formed the basic tool kit for an extended period of time. No spatial …

South Africa and Lesotho (SAL) have been inhabited by tool-producing hominins for at least
two million years. Most of the information we have about the activities and technological …

The archaeological record of Africa provides the earliest evidence for the emergence of the
complex symbolic and technological behaviours that characterize Homo sapiens,,,,,–. The …

Africa's Middle Stone Age (MSA) may have lasted almost half a million years, but its earliest
expression is not yet well understood. The MSA is best known for innovations that appear in …

The later Pleistocene archaeological record of southernmost Africa encompasses several
Middle Stone Age industries and the transition to the Later Stone Age. Through this period …

Teaching is present in all human societies, while within other species it is very limited.
Something happened during the evolution of Homo sapiens that also made us Homo …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

The southern African MSA comprises a series of phases of unique technological innovations
that fuel current models on the evolutionary processes of Anatomically Modern Humans …

The classification of archaeological assemblages in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa in
terms of diversity and temporal continuity has significant implications with respect to recent …