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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, Alex; Armitage, Simon J.; Niespolo, Elizabeth M.; Sharp, Warren D.; Stahlschmidt, Mareike C.; Blackwood, Alexander F.; Boyd, Kelsey C.; Chase, Brian M.; Lagle, Susan E.; Kaplan, Chester F.; Low, Marika A.; Martisius, Naomi L.; McNeill, Patricia J.; Moffat, Ian; O'Driscoll, Corey A.; Rudd, Rachel; Orton, Jayson; Steele, Teresa E.
通讯作者	Mackay, A (corresponding author)，Univ Wollongong, Ctr Archaeol Sci, Sch Earth Atmospher & Life Sci, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. ; Mackay, A (corresponding author)，Univ Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, Upper Campus, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa. ; Steele, TE (corresponding author)，Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, Leipzig, Germany. ; Steele, TE (corresponding author)，Univ Calif Davis, Dept Anthropol, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
来源期刊	NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
ISSN	2397-334X
出版年	2022-02
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. Evidence of ostrich eggshell artefacts, long-distance transport of marine shells and heat treatment of stone tools in a marginal southern African environment 92-80 thousand years ago suggests that innovation among early human groups was sensitive to ecological variation.
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000762147000001
WOS关键词	MIDDLE STONE-AGE ; DIEPKLOOF ROCK SHELTER ; WESTERN CAPE ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; WINTER RAINFALL ; PINNACLE POINT ; WIND-STRENGTH ; HALF-LIVES ; GRAIN-SIZE ; ARCHAEOLOGY
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/377211
作者单位	[Mackay, Alex; Boyd, Kelsey C.; O'Driscoll, Corey A.] Univ Wollongong, Ctr Archaeol Sci, Sch Earth Atmospher & Life Sci, Wollongong, NSW, Australia; [Mackay, Alex] Univ Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, Upper Campus, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa; [Armitage, Simon J.] Royal Holloway Univ London, Ctr Quaternary Res, Dept Geog, Egham, Surrey, England; [Armitage, Simon J.] Univ Bergen, SFF Ctr Early Sapiens Behav SapienCE, Bergen, Norway; [Niespolo, Elizabeth M.; Sharp, Warren D.] Berkeley Geochronol Ctr, Berkeley, CA USA; [Niespolo, Elizabeth M.] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; [Niespolo, Elizabeth M.] Princeton Univ, Dept Geosci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA; [Niespolo, Elizabeth M.; Blackwood, Alexander F.] Univ Cape Town, Human Evolut Res Inst HERI, Cape Town, South Africa; [Stahlschmidt, Mareike C.; Steele, Teresa E.] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, Leipzig, Germany; [Blackwood, Alexander F.] La Trobe Univ, Dept Archaeol & Hist, Victoria, A...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mackay, Alex,Armitage, Simon J.,Niespolo, Elizabeth M.,et al. Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago[J],2022.
APA	Mackay, Alex.,Armitage, Simon J..,Niespolo, Elizabeth M..,Sharp, Warren D..,Stahlschmidt, Mareike C..,...&Steele, Teresa E..(2022).Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago.NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION.
MLA	Mackay, Alex,et al."Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago".NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2022).