%0 Journal Article
%A Shipton, Ceri
%A Roberts, Patrick
%A Archer, Will
%A Armitage, Simon J.
%A Bita, Caesar
%A Blinkhorn, James
%A Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin
%A Crowther, Alison
%A Curtis, Richard
%A d'Errico, Francesco
%A Douka, Katerina
%A Faulkner, Patrick
%A Groucutt, Huw S.
%A Helm, Richard
%A Herries, Andy I. R.
%A Jembe, Severinus
%A Kourampas, Nikos
%A Lee-Thorp, Julia
%A Marchant, Rob
%A Mercader, Julio
%A Marti, Africa Pitarch
%A Prendergast, Mary E.
%A Rowson, Ben
%A Tengeza, Amini
%A Tibesasa, Ruth
%A White, Tom S.
%A Petraglia, Michael D.
%A Boivin, Nicole
%+ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-9E37-0
%R 10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3
%7 2018-05-09
%D 2018
%8 09.05.2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The 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.
%J Nature Communications
%O Nat. Commun.
%V 9
%] 1832
%I Nature Publishing Group
%C London
%@ 2041-1723