Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

(2019) Oshan Wedage et al.   Nature Communications

Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka

(2019) Oshan Wedage et al.   PLoS One

Symbolic expression in Pleistocene Sahul, Sunda, and Wallacea

(2019) Michelle C. Langley et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

(2018) Ceri Shipton et al.   Nature Communications

An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2018) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   NATURE

Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

(2018) Jo McDonald et al.   PLoS One

The earliest human occupation of the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau 40 thousand to 30 thousand years ago

(2018) X. L. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka

(2017) Patrick Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea

(2017) Adam Brumm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Going the distance: Mapping mobility in the Kalahari Desert during the Middle Stone Age through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts

(2016) David J. Nash et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

‘We have never been behaviourally modern’: The implications of Material Engagement Theory and Metaplasticity for understanding the Late Pleistocene record of human behaviour

(2016) Patrick Roberts   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Early human presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old mammoth remains

(2016) V. V. Pitulko et al.   SCIENCE

The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation

(2015) Chris Clarkson et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka

(2015) P. Roberts et al.   SCIENCE

Thinking strings: Additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2013) Marian Vanhaeren et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Early Upper Paleolithic shell beads at Üçağızlı Cave I (Turkey): Technology and the socioeconomic context of ornament life-histories

(2013) Mary C. Stiner et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

(2013) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Quartz-tipped arrows older than 60 ka: further use-trace evidence from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2011) Marlize Lombard   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

People of the ancient rainforest: Late Pleistocene foragers at the Batadomba-lena rockshelter, Sri Lanka

(2011) Nimal Perera et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Identifying grinding, scoring and rubbing use-wear on experimental ochre pieces

(2010) Tammy Hodgskiss   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Experimental series and use-wear in bone tools

(2010) Natacha Buc   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago

(2010) G. R. Summerhayes et al.   SCIENCE

Composite hunting technologies from the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Niah Cave, Borneo

(2009) Huw Barton et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2009) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Were snares and traps used in the Middle Stone Age and does it matter? A review and a case study from Sibudu, South Africa

(2009) Lyn Wadley   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

(2009) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

(2008) Lucinda Backwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE