Creative Explosion: European caves or South African Caves?
TOOLS and BEYOND. Back again and trying to catch up with some news. An article published in the August issue of Scientific American magazine presents a general review from the work conducted in the last two decades by archaeologist Curtis Marean and his team on coastal South African sites. His main findings challenge the previous hypothesis that suggests that earliest modern human behaviors were all found in Europe around 40,000 years ago (and suggesting that this was the departure "place"). The authors wrote that at Pinnacle Point they found evidence that supports the idea that modern humans (at Pinnacle Point) "may be very well the ancestors of everyone in the planet". Marean an colleagues published similar findings in other South African sites such as Blombos Cave suggesting that modern human behaviors emerged earlier that previously accepted. Maybe we must recognize that the "creative explosion" leading to modern human behavior happened at different times in different regions....(by the way, what's the meaning of "modern human behavior?)
If you want to learn more about Pinnacle Point, and the findings presented by Marean and colleagues, you can check a very entertaining link created by Scientific American.
TOOLS and BEYOND. Back again and trying to catch up with some news. An article published in the August issue of Scientific American magazine presents a general review from the work conducted in the last two decades by archaeologist Curtis Marean and his team on coastal South African sites. His main findings challenge the previous hypothesis that suggests that earliest modern human behaviors were all found in Europe around 40,000 years ago (and suggesting that this was the departure "place"). The authors wrote that at Pinnacle Point they found evidence that supports the idea that modern humans (at Pinnacle Point) "may be very well the ancestors of everyone in the planet". Marean an colleagues published similar findings in other South African sites such as Blombos Cave suggesting that modern human behaviors emerged earlier that previously accepted. Maybe we must recognize that the "creative explosion" leading to modern human behavior happened at different times in different regions....(by the way, what's the meaning of "modern human behavior?)
If you want to learn more about Pinnacle Point, and the findings presented by Marean and colleagues, you can check a very entertaining link created by Scientific American.
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