@article {309451,
	title = {A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania},
	journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences},
	volume = {371},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016/06/13},
	abstract = {<p>Increased population density is among the proposed drivers of the behavioural changes culminating in the Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA{\textendash}LSA) transition and human dispersals from East Africa, but reliable archaeological measures of demographic change are lacking. We use Late Pleistocene{\textendash}Holocene lithic and faunal data from Nasera rockshelter (Tanzania) to show progressive declines in residential mobility{\textemdash}a variable linked to population density{\textemdash}and technological shifts, the latter associated with environmental changes. These data suggest that the MSA{\textendash}LSA transition is part of a long-term pattern of changes in residential mobility and technology that reflect human responses to increased population density, with dispersals potentially marking a complementary response to larger populations.This article is part of the themed issue {\textquoteleft}Major transitions in human evolution{\textquoteright}.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1098/rstb.2015.0238 },
	url = {http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1698/20150238},
	author = {Tryon, Christian A. and Faith, J. Tyler}
}
