BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

The timing and location of the emergence of our species and of associated behavioural
changes are crucial for our understanding of human evolution. The earliest fossil attributed …

Proponents of the model known as the “human revolution” claim that modern human
behaviors arose suddenly, and nearly simultaneously, throughout the Old World ca. 40 …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

Recent developments in the study of early man have turned away from analysing fossil
remains as evidence of a single and inevitable process of evolution towards homo sapiens …

The question of how modern human behaviour emerged from pre-human hominid
behaviour is central to discussions of human evolution. This important book argues that 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 question of the mode of origin of modern humans (Homo sapiens) has dominated
palaeoanthropological debate over the last decade. This review discusses the main models …

Three archaeological sites at Katanda on the Upper Semliki River in the Western Rift Valley
of Zaire have provided evidence for a well-developed bone industry in a Middle Stone Age …