Sally Mcbrearty
Biographic Data
| ID | 86419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Mcbrearty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbrearty |
| SIGNATURE | MCBREARTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1357 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa
Advances in the Study of the Origin of Humanness
In a paper published in 2000, McBrearty and Brooks argued for the cognitive unity of Homo sapiens as a species. We asserted that the cognitive abilities of early members of our species were indistinguishable from our own, and that the early signs of this ability appear in the record of the African Middle Stone Age. Innovations were produced by the normal process of invention and do not require special genetic mutations to explain them. Gaps in th…
Archaeology of middle Pleistocene lacustrine and spring paleoenvironments in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Year old blades from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later middle Pleistocene
Correlation of volcaniclastic deposits of the Bedded Tuff Member (K4) of the Kapthurin Formation (Kenya) provides the means to assess the nature of archaeological change during the later middle Pleistocene, a time period critical to human evolution but poorly represented at other African localities. Field stratigraphic evidence, and petrographic and electron microprobe geochemical analyses of volcanic glass and phenocrysts, define eight subdivisi…
From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity
Patterns of technological change at the origin of Homo sapiens
Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Ar/39Ar dating of the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
The revolution that wasn't: A New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human Behavior
Boxgrove: A Middle Pleistocene Hominid site at Eartham Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex
Society of Africanist archaeologists
Tools Underfoot: Human Trampling as an Agent of Lithic Artifact Edge Modification
A series of eight replication experiments tests the proposition that human trampling of stone flakes can produce edge damage that mimics deliberate retouch. Retouchlike edge damage, breakage, and other forms of macroscopic mechanical damage were observed on large numbers of pieces in all trampled sets. Experiments measured the relative contributions of three variables-raw material, artifact density, and substrate-in generating damage. Results ind…
Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
No abstract
Ju/Wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari . Irven DeVore, Barbara Isaac, Allan L. Marea, John Yellen, Susan A. M. Shumaker , and Kathleen K. Skelly
The Structure of the Lower Pleistocene Archaeological Record: A Case Study From the Koobi Fora Formation [and Comments and Reply]
Consider the humble termite: Termites as agents of post-depositional disturbance at african archaeological sites
Spheroids and battered stones in the African early and middle stone age
The Origin of Modern Humans
The Achuelian of the Yiron Plateau, Israel
Cutlery & carnivory
The Sangoan-Lupemban and middle stone age sequence at the Muguruk site, western Kenya
Sangoan artifacts have been reported to overlie those of the Acheulian and to underlie those of the Middle Stone Age in a wide region of tropical Africa. Few detailed field studies have been undertaken, however, with the result that this important transition is poorly understood. At the Muguruk site in western Kenya, artifacts of the Ojolla industry (Sangoan‐Lupemban) are overlain by those of the Pundo Makwar Industry (Middle Stone Age). The Ojol…
Archaeological survey in Mbeya Region, Southern Tanzania
In Azania XVII we included a paper by Thomas Wynn and Thomas Chadderdon on the distinctive LSA Kiwira Industry in Tukuyu District, between Rungwe Mountain and the northern tip of Lake Nyasa. The present note places that work in the context of a broader survey in that region by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Sally McBrearty is completing her thesis at Urbana, Dr Waane is with the Tanzanian Antiquities, while Dr Wynn is on facult…
The revolution that wasn't: A New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human Behavior
Tools Underfoot: Human Trampling as an Agent of Lithic Artifact Edge Modification
A series of eight replication experiments tests the proposition that human trampling of stone flakes can produce edge damage that mimics deliberate retouch. Retouchlike edge damage, breakage, and other forms of macroscopic mechanical damage were observed on large numbers of pieces in all trampled sets. Experiments measured the relative contributions of three variables-raw material, artifact density, and substrate-in generating damage. Results ind…
Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity
Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
The Sangoan-Lupemban and middle stone age sequence at the Muguruk site, western Kenya
Sangoan artifacts have been reported to overlie those of the Acheulian and to underlie those of the Middle Stone Age in a wide region of tropical Africa. Few detailed field studies have been undertaken, however, with the result that this important transition is poorly understood. At the Muguruk site in western Kenya, artifacts of the Ojolla industry (Sangoan‐Lupemban) are overlain by those of the Pundo Makwar Industry (Middle Stone Age). The Ojol…
Year old blades from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Ar/39Ar dating of the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
The Structure of the Lower Pleistocene Archaeological Record: A Case Study From the Koobi Fora Formation [and Comments and Reply]
Consider the humble termite: Termites as agents of post-depositional disturbance at african archaeological sites
Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
No abstract
Patterns of technological change at the origin of Homo sapiens
A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa
The Origin of Modern Humans
Advances in the Study of the Origin of Humanness
In a paper published in 2000, McBrearty and Brooks argued for the cognitive unity of Homo sapiens as a species. We asserted that the cognitive abilities of early members of our species were indistinguishable from our own, and that the early signs of this ability appear in the record of the African Middle Stone Age. Innovations were produced by the normal process of invention and do not require special genetic mutations to explain them. Gaps in th…
Archaeological survey in Mbeya Region, Southern Tanzania
In Azania XVII we included a paper by Thomas Wynn and Thomas Chadderdon on the distinctive LSA Kiwira Industry in Tukuyu District, between Rungwe Mountain and the northern tip of Lake Nyasa. The present note places that work in the context of a broader survey in that region by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Sally McBrearty is completing her thesis at Urbana, Dr Waane is with the Tanzanian Antiquities, while Dr Wynn is on facult…
Archaeological survey in Mbeya Region, Southern Tanzania
In Azania XVII we included a paper by Thomas Wynn and Thomas Chadderdon on the distinctive LSA Kiwira Industry in Tukuyu District, between Rungwe Mountain and the northern tip of Lake Nyasa. The present note places that work in the context of a broader survey in that region by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Sally McBrearty is completing her thesis at Urbana, Dr Waane is with the Tanzanian Antiquities, while Dr Wynn is on facult…
The Sangoan-Lupemban and middle stone age sequence at the Muguruk site, western Kenya
Sangoan artifacts have been reported to overlie those of the Acheulian and to underlie those of the Middle Stone Age in a wide region of tropical Africa. Few detailed field studies have been undertaken, however, with the result that this important transition is poorly understood. At the Muguruk site in western Kenya, artifacts of the Ojolla industry (Sangoan‐Lupemban) are overlain by those of the Pundo Makwar Industry (Middle Stone Age). The Ojol…
The Achuelian of the Yiron Plateau, Israel
Cutlery & carnivory
Consider the humble termite: Termites as agents of post-depositional disturbance at african archaeological sites
Spheroids and battered stones in the African early and middle stone age
The Origin of Modern Humans
Ju/Wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari . Irven DeVore, Barbara Isaac, Allan L. Marea, John Yellen, Susan A. M. Shumaker , and Kathleen K. Skelly
The Structure of the Lower Pleistocene Archaeological Record: A Case Study From the Koobi Fora Formation [and Comments and Reply]
Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
No abstract
Tools Underfoot: Human Trampling as an Agent of Lithic Artifact Edge Modification
A series of eight replication experiments tests the proposition that human trampling of stone flakes can produce edge damage that mimics deliberate retouch. Retouchlike edge damage, breakage, and other forms of macroscopic mechanical damage were observed on large numbers of pieces in all trampled sets. Experiments measured the relative contributions of three variables-raw material, artifact density, and substrate-in generating damage. Results ind…
Society of Africanist archaeologists
The revolution that wasn't: A New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human Behavior
Boxgrove: A Middle Pleistocene Hominid site at Eartham Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex
Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Ar/39Ar dating of the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya
Patterns of technological change at the origin of Homo sapiens
Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later middle Pleistocene
Correlation of volcaniclastic deposits of the Bedded Tuff Member (K4) of the Kapthurin Formation (Kenya) provides the means to assess the nature of archaeological change during the later middle Pleistocene, a time period critical to human evolution but poorly represented at other African localities. Field stratigraphic evidence, and petrographic and electron microprobe geochemical analyses of volcanic glass and phenocrysts, define eight subdivisi…
From Acheulean to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity
Year old blades from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Archaeology of middle Pleistocene lacustrine and spring paleoenvironments in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Advances in the Study of the Origin of Humanness
In a paper published in 2000, McBrearty and Brooks argued for the cognitive unity of Homo sapiens as a species. We asserted that the cognitive abilities of early members of our species were indistinguishable from our own, and that the early signs of this ability appear in the record of the African Middle Stone Age. Innovations were produced by the normal process of invention and do not require special genetic mutations to explain them. Gaps in th…
A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa
Archaeology (20 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Geology (16 works) · Geology (14 works) · Paleontology (11 works) · Pleistocene (11 works) · Biology (10 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · History (8 works)