Nature Communications (May 2018)
78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
- Ceri Shipton,
- Patrick Roberts,
- Will Archer,
- Simon J. Armitage,
- Caesar Bita,
- James Blinkhorn,
- Colin Courtney-Mustaphi,
- Alison Crowther,
- Richard Curtis,
- Francesco d’ Errico,
- Katerina Douka,
- Patrick Faulkner,
- Huw S. Groucutt,
- Richard Helm,
- Andy I. R Herries,
- Severinus Jembe,
- Nikos Kourampas,
- Julia Lee-Thorp,
- Rob Marchant,
- Julio Mercader,
- Africa Pitarch Marti,
- Mary E. Prendergast,
- Ben Rowson,
- Amini Tengeza,
- Ruth Tibesasa,
- Tom S. White,
- Michael D. Petraglia,
- Nicole Boivin
Affiliations
- Ceri Shipton
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
- Patrick Roberts
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Will Archer
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Simon J. Armitage
- Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Caesar Bita
- Malindi Museum, National Museums of Kenya
- James Blinkhorn
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Colin Courtney-Mustaphi
- Department Environment, York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, University of York, Heslington
- Alison Crowther
- British Institute in Eastern Africa
- Richard Curtis
- Department of Archaeology and History, The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Palaeoscience Labs, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus
- Francesco d’ Errico
- SSF Centre for Early Sapiens Behavior (SapienCe), University of Bergen
- Katerina Douka
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Patrick Faulkner
- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Archaeology, The University of Sydney
- Huw S. Groucutt
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Richard Helm
- Canterbury Archaeological Trust
- Andy I. R Herries
- Department of Archaeology and History, The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Palaeoscience Labs, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus
- Severinus Jembe
- Coastal Forests Conservation Unit, National Museums of Kenya
- Nikos Kourampas
- Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh
- Julia Lee-Thorp
- School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
- Rob Marchant
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
- Julio Mercader
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
- Africa Pitarch Marti
- UMR 5199 PACEA, CNRS/Université de Bordeaux
- Mary E. Prendergast
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Saint Louis University
- Ben Rowson
- Invertebrate Biodiversity, National Museum Wales, Cathays Park
- Amini Tengeza
- Coastal Forests Conservation Unit, National Museums of Kenya
- Ruth Tibesasa
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria
- Tom S. White
- University Museum of Zoology
- Michael D. Petraglia
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Nicole Boivin
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Most of the archaeological record of the Middle to Later Stone Age transition comes from southern Africa. Here, Shipton et al. describe the new site Panga ya Saidi on the coast of Kenya that covers the last 78,000 years and shows gradual cultural and technological change in the Late Pleistocene.
