Continuous sophisticated Neolithic technology record gong back 50,000 years

[shunyadragon]

This probably is the most important discovery in the Neolithic humans because the record of sophisticated Neolithic technology is in a cave with continuous occupation in layers going back 50,000 years.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/05/10/archaeologists-uncover-stunning-find-to-help-shed-light-on-dawn-mankind.html

Archaeologists uncover stunning find to help shed light on the dawn of mankind

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[rogue06]

A bit more on it:

Source: People Lived in This Cave for 78,000 Years

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The full paper describing the discovery can be found HERE although I'll post the Abstract from it:

Source: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest

ABSTRACT

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.

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