Browsing Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR by Author "d'Errico, Francesco"
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Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda R.; Wadley, Lyn; Geis, Lila; Queffelec, Alain; Banks, William E.; Doyon, Luc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fully shaped, morphologically standardized bone tools are generally considered reliable indicators of the emergence of modern behavior. We report the discovery of 23 double-beveled bone tools from ~ 80,000–60,000-year-old ... -
Technological and geometric morphometric analysis of ‘post-Howiesons Poort points’ from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Timbrell, Lucy; Peña, Paloma de la; Way, Amy; Hoggard, Christian; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco; Wadley, Lyn; Grove, Matt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Lithic assemblages immediately following the Howiesons Poort, often loosely referred to as the ‘post-Howiesons Poort’ or MSA III, have attracted relatively little attention when compared to other well-known phases of the ... -
Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya
d'Errico, Francesco; Pitarch Marti, Africa; Shipton, Ceri; Le Vraux, Emma; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Goldstein, Steven; Petraglia, Michael D.; Boivin, Nicole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-09)African Middle Stone Age (MSA) populations used pigments, manufactured and wore personal ornaments, made abstract engravings, and produced fully shaped bone tools. However, ongoing research across Africa reveals variability ... -
Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: The marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa
Vanhaeren, Marian; Wadley, Lyn; d'Errico, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Located in the KwaZulu-Natal, 15 km from the coast, Sibudu has yielded twenty-three marine gastropods, nine of which are perforated. At 70.5 ± 2.0 ka, in a Still Bay Industry, there is a cluster of perforated Afrolittorina ... -
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation
d'Errico, Francesco; Pitarch Martí, Africa; Wei, Yi; Gao, Xing; Vanhaeren, Marian; Doyon, Luc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Personal ornaments have become a key cultural proxy to investigate cognitive evolution, modern human dispersal, and population dynamics. Here, we reassess personal ornaments found at Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and compare them ...