Ochre use at Sibudu Cave and its link to complex cognition in the Middle Stone Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammy Hodgskiss
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Complex Cognition ◽  
Sibudu Cave

Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 2479-2495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco d'Errico ◽  
Lucinda R. Backwell ◽  
Lyn Wadley
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Regional Variability ◽  
Sibudu Cave

Howiesons Poort

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma de la Peña
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Great Variability ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Tradition ◽  
Complex Cognition ◽  
Tool Technology ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Bone Tool

The Howiesons Poort is a technological tradition within the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa. This technological tradition shows different characteristics, technical and symbolic (the engraving of ostrich eggshell containers, the appearance of engraved ochre, formal bone tool technology, compound adhesives for hafting and a great variability in hunting techniques), which only developed in an extensive manner much later in other parts of the world. Therefore, the African Middle Stone Age through the material of the Howiesons Poort holds some of the oldest symbolic and complex technologies documented in prehistory. For some researchers, the Howiesons Poort still represents an unusual and ephemeral technological development within the Middle Stone Age, probably related to environmental stress, and as such there are numerous hypotheses for it as an environmental adaptation, whereas for others, on the contrary, it implies that complex cognition, deduced from the elaborated technology and symbolic expressions, was fully developed in the Middle Stone Age.

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

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucinda Backwell ◽  
Francesco d'Errico ◽  
Lyn Wadley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Sibudu Cave

scholarly journals Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Goldberg ◽  
Christopher E. Miller ◽  
Solveig Schiegl ◽  
Bertrand Ligouis ◽  
Francesco Berna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Sibudu Cave
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