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- Title
What happened to the human mind after the Howiesons Poort?
- Authors
Lombard, Marlize; Parsons, Isabelle
- Abstract
The authors deliver a decisive blow to the idea of unidirectional behavioural and cognitive evolution in this tightly argued account of why the bow and arrow was invented and then possibly laid aside by Middle Stone Age communities in southern Africa. Finding that all are modern humans (Homo sapiens), they paint a picture of diverse strategies for survival and development from 75 000 years ago onwards. It is one in which material inventions can come and go, human societies negotiating their own paths through a rugged mental landscape of opportunity.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN Africa; SOUTH Africa; AFRICA; BOW &; arrow; STONE Age; PREHISTORIC peoples; HUMAN evolution; HUMAN origins; HOWIESONS Poort Site (South Africa); ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Antiquity, 2011, Vol 85, Issue 330, p1433
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00062153