The behavioral origins of Homo sapiens can be traced back to the first material culture
produced by our species in Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Beyond this broad …

Ornaments such as beads are among the earliest signs of symbolic behavior among human
ancestors. Their appearance signals important developments in both cognition and social …

A number of Middle Stone Age (MSA) assemblages in northern Africa, as well as a few in
South Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, preserve small mollusk shells, most notably …

Abstract African Middle Stone Age (MSA) populations used pigments, manufactured and
wore personal ornaments, made abstract engravings, and produced fully shaped bone tools …

With the onset of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), hunter-gatherers of the so-called
Iberomaurusian techno-complex appeared in what is now the Mediterranean Maghreb …

Abstract Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies first appear in the archaeological records of
northern, eastern and southern Africa during the Middle Pleistocene epoch. The absence of …

The emergence of technologies to culturally modify the appearance of the human body is a
debated issue, with earliest evidence consisting of perforated marine shells dated between …

Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions
Page 1 JASs Invited Reviews Journal of Anthropological Sciences the JASs is published by the …

We present the results of detailed microscopic examination of tanged tools from the site of Ifri
n'Ammar. The rock shelter has a particularly rich and well-preserved stratigraphy that has …

The ability to produce large cutting tools (LCTs) is considered as the technological marker of
the Acheulean and the indicator of a greater technological complexity compared to the …