@article {317316,
	title = {78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2018},
	month = {2018/05/09},
	pages = {1832},
	abstract = {<p>The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Following a shift in toolkits ~67,000 years ago, novel symbolic and technological behaviors assemble in a non-unilinear manner. Against a backdrop of a persistent tropical forest-grassland ecotone, localized innovations better characterize the Late Pleistocene of this part of East Africa than alternative emphases on dramatic revolutions or migrations.</p>
},
	isbn = {2041-1723},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04057-3},
	author = {Shipton, Ceri and Roberts, Patrick and Archer, Will and Armitage, Simon J. and Bita, Caesar and Blinkhorn, James and Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin and Crowther, Alison and Curtis, Richard and Errico, Francesco d{\textquoteright} and Douka, Katerina and Faulkner, Patrick and Groucutt, Huw S. and Helm, Richard and Herries, Andy I. R. and Jembe, Severinus and Kourampas, Nikos and Lee-Thorp, Julia and Marchant, Rob and Mercader, Julio and Marti, Africa Pitarch and Prendergast, Mary E. and Rowson, Ben and Tengeza, Amini and Tibesasa, Ruth and White, Tom S. and Petraglia, Michael D. and Boivin, Nicole}
}
