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DOI	10.1038/s41559-022-01667-5
	Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago
	Mackay A.; Armitage S.J.; Niespolo E.M.; Sharp W.D.; Stahlschmidt M.C.; Blackwood A.F.; Boyd K.C.; Chase B.M.; Lagle S.E.; Kaplan C.F.; Low M.A.; Martisius N.L.; McNeill P.J.; Moffat I.; O’Driscoll C.A.; Rudd R.; Orton J.; Steele T.E.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2397-334X
起始页码	361
结束页码	369
卷号	6 期号:4
英文摘要	Africa’s Middle Stone Age preserves sporadic evidence for novel behaviours among early modern humans, prompting a range of questions about the influence of social and environmental factors on patterns of human behavioural evolution. Here we document a suite of novel adaptations dating approximately 92–80 thousand years before the present at the archaeological site Varsche Rivier 003 (VR003), located in southern Africa’s arid Succulent Karoo biome. Distinctive innovations include the production of ostrich eggshell artefacts, long-distance transportation of marine molluscs and systematic use of heat shatter in stone tool production, none of which occur in coeval assemblages at sites in more humid, well-studied regions immediately to the south. The appearance of these novelties at VR003 corresponds with a period of reduced regional wind strength and enhanced summer rainfall, and all of them disappear with increasing winter rainfall dominance after 80 thousand years before the present, following which a pattern of technological similarity emerges at sites throughout the broader region. The results indicate complex and environmentally contingent processes of innovation and cultural transmission in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age. ? 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptation; Africa; animal; archeology; egg shell; hominid; human; procedures; Adaptation, Physiological; Africa, Southern; Animals; Archaeology; Egg Shell; Hominidae; Humans
来源期刊	Nature Ecology & Evolution
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/257100
作者单位	Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia; Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Upper Campus, Western Cape, Rondebosch, South Africa; Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom; SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States; Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution-Montpe...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mackay A.,Armitage S.J.,Niespolo E.M.,等. Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago[J],2022,6(4).
APA	Mackay A..,Armitage S.J..,Niespolo E.M..,Sharp W.D..,Stahlschmidt M.C..,...&Steele T.E..(2022).Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago.Nature Ecology & Evolution,6(4).
MLA	Mackay A.,et al."Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago".Nature Ecology & Evolution 6.4(2022).