Benoit Dubreuil
2011
The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort, 77--59 ka
Current Anthropology 52(3):361--400, 2011
Variations in the material culture in Africa in the Late Pleistocene indicate that it was a period of rapid cultural change not previously observed in the Middle Stone Age. In southern Africa, two techno-traditions, the Still Bay and the Howiesons Poort, have raised interest ...MORE ⇓
Variations in the material culture in Africa in the Late Pleistocene indicate that it was a period of rapid cultural change not previously observed in the Middle Stone Age. In southern Africa, two techno-traditions, the Still Bay and the Howiesons Poort, have raised interest because ...
2008
What do Modern Behaviours in Homo Sapiens Imply for the Evolution of Language?
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 99-106, 2008
The emergence of modern cultural behaviors in Homo sapiens 150,000-50,000 years ago is often explained by a change in the faculty of language, such as the development of recursive syntax or autonomous speech. In this paper, I argue that the link between ...