Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer

Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Niang, Khady, Candy, Ian, Blinkhorn, James, Mills, William, Cerasoni, Jacopo N., Bateman, Mark D., Crowther, Alison ORCID: 0000-0002-2394-1917 and Groucutt, Huw S. (2021). Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene. Sci Rep, 11 (1). BERLIN: NATURE RESEARCH. ISSN 2045-2322

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DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-79418-4

Abstract

The African Middle Stone Age (MSA, typically considered to span ca. 300-30 thousand years ago [ka]), represents our species' first and longest lasting cultural phase. Although the MSA to Later Stone Age (LSA) transition is known to have had a degree of spatial and temporal variability, recent studies have implied that in some regions, the MSA persisted well beyond 30 ka. Here we report two new sites in Senegal that date the end of the MSA to around 11 ka, the youngest yet documented MSA in Africa. This shows that this cultural phase persisted into the Holocene. These results highlight significant spatial and temporal cultural variability in the African Late Pleistocene, consistent with genomic and palaeoanthropological hypotheses that significant, long-standing inter-group cultural differences shaped the later stages of human evolution in Africa.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Scerri, Eleanor M. L.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Niang, Khady	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Candy, Ian	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Blinkhorn, James	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Mills, William	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Cerasoni, Jacopo N.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Bateman, Mark D.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Crowther, Alison	UNSPECIFIED	orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-1917	UNSPECIFIED
Groucutt, Huw S.	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED