New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body

A 39,600-year-old leather punch board from Canyars, Gavà, Spain

(2023) Luc Doyon et al.   Science Advances

An improved chronology for the Middle Stone Age at El Mnasra cave, Morocco

(2022) Eslem Ben Arous et al.   PLoS One

Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results

(2022) Chantal Tribolo et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Emergence of Habitual Ochre Use in Africa and its Significance for The Development of Ritual Behavior During The Middle Stone Age

(2022) Rimtautas Dapschauskas et al.   JOURNAL OF WORLD PREHISTORY

Early Middle Stone Age personal ornaments from Bizmoune Cave, Essaouira, Morocco

(2021) El Mehdi Sehasseh et al.   Science Advances

The 100,000–77,000-Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?

(2021) Turid Hillestad Nel et al.   African Archaeological Review

Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000-year-old social network in Africa

(2021) Jennifer M. Miller et al.   NATURE

On holes and strings: Earliest displays of human adornment in the Middle Palaeolithic

(2020) Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer et al.   PLoS One

Beads and bead residues as windows to past behaviours and taphonomy: a case study from Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa

(2020) Benjamin Collins et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Geological and soil maps of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain for the Last Glacial Maximum

(2019) Hayley C. Cawthra et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2019) Zenobia Jacobs et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Symbolic expression in Pleistocene Sahul, Sunda, and Wallacea

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

Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania

(2018) Christian A. Tryon et al.   PLoS One

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

(2018) Alison S. Brooks et al.   SCIENCE

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

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago

(2018) Dirk L. Hoffmann et al.   Science Advances

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

(2018) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   NATURE

The origin and evolution of sewing technologies in Eurasia and North America

(2018) Francesco d’Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Environment versus behaviour: Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of fauna from the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2018) Jerome P. Reynard et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Subsistence strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the southern Cape of South Africa: Comparing the Still Bay of Blombos Cave with the Howiesons Poort of Klipdrift Shelter

(2017) Jerome P. Reynard et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

An introduction to niche construction theory

(2016) Kevin Laland et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Earliest evidence of personal ornaments associated with burial: The Conus shells from Border Cave

(2016) Francesco d'Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

42,000-year-old worked and pigment-stained Nautilus shell from Jerimalai (Timor-Leste): Evidence for an early coastal adaptation in ISEA

(2016) Michelle C. Langley et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A New Chronology for Rhafas, Northeast Morocco, Spanning the North African Middle Stone Age through to the Neolithic

(2016) Nina Doerschner et al.   PLoS One

The Small Mammal Sequence from the c. 76 – 72 ka Still Bay Levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa – Taphonomic and Palaeoecological Implications for Human Behaviour

(2016) Turid Hillestad Nel et al.   PLoS One

Initial insights into Aterian hunter–gatherer settlements on coastal landscapes: The example of Unit 8 of El Mnasra Cave (Témara, Morocco)

(2016) Emilie Campmas et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa

(2016) Patrick Roberts et al.   PLoS One

Were Upper Pleistocene human/non-human predator occupations at the Témara caves (El Harhoura 2 and El Mnasra, Morocco) influenced by climate change?

(2015) Emilie Campmas et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Ornaments Reveal Resistance of North European Cultures to the Spread of Farming

(2015) Solange Rigaud et al.   PLoS One

The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies

(2015) Sylvain Soriano et al.   PLoS One

Techno-Cultural Characterization of the MIS 5 (c. 105 – 90 Ka) Lithic Industries at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa

(2015) Katja Douze et al.   PLoS One

Intra-Site Variability in the Still Bay Fauna at Blombos Cave: Implications for Explanatory Models of the Middle Stone Age Cultural and Technological Evolution

(2015) Emmanuel Discamps et al.   PLoS One

Radiometrically dated ostrich eggshell beads from the Middle and Later Stone Age of Magubike Rockshelter, southern Tanzania

(2014) Jennifer Midori Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails

(2014) N. Puillandre et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

Assessing the Accidental Versus Deliberate Colour Modification of Shell Beads: a Case Study on PerforatedNassarius kraussianusfrom Blombos Cave Middle Stone Age levels

(2013) F. d'Errico et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Tortoise taphonomy and tortoise butchery patterns at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2013) Jessica C. Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Shell bead production in the Upper Paleolithic of Vale Boi (SW Portugal): an experimental perspective

(2013) Frederico Tátá et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL 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

Context of modern human occupations in North Africa: Contribution of the Témara caves data

(2013) Emmanuelle Stoetzel et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: Implications for Late Pleistocene human–environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa

(2012) Zenobia Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains

(2012) Luke A. Gliganic et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Use of red ochre by early Neandertals

(2012) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

(2012) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Datation par ESR-U/th combinées de dents fossiles des grottes d’El Mnasra et d’El Harhoura 2, région de Rabat-Temara. Implications chronologiques sur le peuplement du Maroc atlantique au Pléistocène supérieur et son

(2012) Nouha Janati-Idrissi et al.   QUATERNAIRE

Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers (‘Smugglers’ Cave’), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels

(2011) Z. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age larger mammal faunal assemblage from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa

(2011) Jessica C. Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Human niche construction in interdisciplinary focus

(2011) J. Kendal et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Middle Stone Age shellfish exploitation: Potential indications for mass collecting and resource intensification at Blombos Cave and Klasies River, South Africa

(2011) Geeske H.J. Langejans et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2011) C. S. Henshilwood et al.   SCIENCE

New chronometric data from Ifri n’Ammar (Morocco) and the chronostratigraphy of the Middle Palaeolithic in the Western Maghreb

(2010) Daniel Richter et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior: perspectives from cave PP13B, Pinnacle Point, South Africa

(2010) Antonieta Jerardino et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Cultural modernity: Consensus or conundrum?

(2010) Nicholas J. Conard   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

(2010) J. Zilhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa

(2010) Erich C. Fisher et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2010) Vincent Mourre et al.   SCIENCE

Shells and ochre in Middle Paleolithic Qafzeh Cave, Israel: indications for modern behavior

(2009) Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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

(2009) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   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

Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa

(2008) Francesco d'Errico et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa)

(2008) Paola Villa et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE