Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6044313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R A Foley (0000-0003-0479-3039, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Robert Foley (0000-0003-2574-4981), M M Lahr (0000-0001-5752-5770, Universidade de São Paulo) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-36 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774300001451 |
| OpenAlex | W2134429388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 244 |
| References cited | 178 |
The origins and evolution of modern humans has been the dominant interest in palaeoanthropology for the last decade, and much archaeological interpretation has been structured around the various issues associated with whether humans have a recent African origin or a more ancient one. While the archaeological record has been used to support or refute various aspects of the theories, and to provide a behavioural framework for different biological models, there has been little attempt to employ the evidence of stone tool technology to unravel phylogenetic relationships. Here we examine the evidence that the evolution of modern humans is integrally related to the development of the Upper Palaeolithic and similar technologies, and conclude that there is only a weak relationship. In contrast there is a strong association between the evolution and spread of modern humans and Grahame Clark's Mode 3 technologies (the Middle Stone Age/Palaeolithic). The implications of this for the evolution of Neanderthals, the multiple pattern of human dispersals, and the nature of cognitive evolution, are considered
Archaeological evidence · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Human evolution · Paleoanthropology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · History · Language and cultural evolution · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
The survival of the weakest
The Modern Human–Neanderthal problem
The Modern Human colonisation and the Neanderthal extinction
The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle
Biogeographical patterns
Human range expansions, contractions and extinctions
Comparative behaviour and ecology of Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Human evolution in the Pleistocene
Evolution in Archaeology
Evolution of Ramasetu region as a link between India and Sri Lanka during the late Pleistocene and Holocene
Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later middle Pleistocene
Levallois Technology in China
El poblamiento Achelense de Europa y el origen de la anatomía neandertal
Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Oldowan
Between Observations and Models
Origin of Modern Humans
Levallois Technology
Arid Paradises or Dangerous Landscapes
Human Evolution in the Middle Pleistocene
Stone Age people in a changing South African Greater Cape Floristic Region
The Genus Homo in Africa
The Early Acheulean inAfrica
Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems
The Emergence, Diversity and Significance of Mode 3 (Prepared Core) Technologies
Patterns of Middle Pleistocene hominin evolution in Africa and the emergence of modern humans
African Archaeology
Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations and human evolution on the southern coastal plain of South Africa
The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations
The ecology of social transitions in human evolution
Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus
Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans
Genetic traces of ancient demography
Going East
Modern human origins
Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model
The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens
Human evolution in the Middle Pleistocene
Collective narratives catalyse cooperation
Sediment micromorphology and site formation processes during the Middle to Later Stone Ages at the Haua Fteah Cave, Cyrenaica, Libya
From Human Past to Human Future
Observations on Systematics in Paleolithic Archaeology
Getting from Sunda to Sahul
Techno-Modes, Techno-Facies and Palaeo-Cultures
Origin of Modern Humans
The Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition in South Asia and Its Implications for Hominin Cognition and Dispersals
The Pleistocene Stone Artifact Record of Africa
Later Middle Pleistocene Homo
Discussion 3
Origin of Modern Humans
Later Middle Pleistocene Homo
Origin of Modern Humans
Later Middle Pleistocene Homo
Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers
Saharan Corridors and Their Role in the Evolutionary Geography of ‘Out of Africa I’
Lithic Variability and Cultures in the East African Middle Stone Age
Technological Change and the Importance of Variability
Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition
Stone Age Visiting Cards Revisited
Africa from MIS 6-2
Homo floresiensis and the African Oldowan
Human Evolution in Late Quaternary Eastern Africa
Behavioral and Cultural Origins of Neanderthals
The Late Quaternary Hominins of Africa
Neanderthals and Modern Humans
Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races
The Nubian Spectrum
Clovis Colonization of Eastern North America
Cultural Innovations and Demographic Change
Cultural contact over the Strait of Gibraltar during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evaluating the visibility of cultural exchange
The origin of modern anatomy
Adaptive radiations and dispersals in hominin evolutionary ecology
Raw material economies and mobility patterns in the Late Paleolithic at Shuidonggou locality 2, north China
Measuring behavioural and cognitive complexity in lithic technology throughout human evolution
Technological persistency following faunal stability during the Pleistocene
Homo sapiens origins and evolution in the Kalahari Basin, southern Africa
Towards a theory of modern human origins
Human display and dispersal
The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity
On stony ground
Archeology and the evolution of human behavior
Towards a theory of modern human origins
Information management and cultural evolution in Aboriginal Australia (In light of the cultural heterochrony hypothesis)
Seafaring in the Pleistocene
What is Cultural Modernity? A General View and a South African Perspective from Rose Cottage Cave
Brain Disorder and Rock Art
Demography and Cultural Innovation
Pan‐Africanism vs. single‐origin of Homo sapiens
On Hunting and Meat-eating by Middle Stone Age Hominins at Loiyangalani Site in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Victoria West-like Core Technology from Fengshudao, an Early–Middle Pleistocene Site in Bose Basin, South China
A Life in African Archaeology
The Howiesons Poort Backed Artefacts from Klasies River
Resource pressure and environmental change on the North African littoral
The four faces of Eve
Dating the colonization of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea)
Diagnosing Homo sapiens in the fossil record
The revolution that didn't arrive
Out of Africa
On Tools Making Minds
Origin of Neanderthals. Neanderthals of the Altai
The Human revolution
Faunal remains from Klasies River mouth
World prehistory in new perspective
Sequence Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA in Humans and Chimpanzees
U-Series Analyses of the Lower Travertine at Ehringsdorf, DDR
New Discoveries at the Middle Pleistocene Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel
Non-invasive sampling and DNA amplification for paternity exclusion, community structure, and phylogeography in wild chimpanzees
Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology
The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating
Emergence of Modern Humans
Laetoli, A Pliocene site in northern Tanzania
The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River mouth in South Africa
Tools, language, and cognition in human evolution
Palaeoanthropology and palaeolithic archaeology in the People's Republic of China
Latest Homo erectus of Java
Dating and Context of Three Middle Stone Age Sites with Bone Points in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire
Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins
A Middle Stone Age Worked Bone Industry from Katanda, Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire
A Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi, East Georgia, Caucasus
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution
African Homo erectus
Paleomagnetic Age for Hominid Fossils at Atapuerca Archaeological Site, Spain
The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula
African Populations and the Evolution of Human Mitochondrial DNA
Early Homo and associated artefacts from Asia
Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNAs.
Three new human skulls from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site in Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain
Mousterian Cultures in France
Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population.
Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel
Direct dating of Florisbad hominid
Ecology and energetics of encephalization in hominid evolution
The Emergence of Modern Humans
A hominid tibia from Middle Pleistocene sediments at Boxgrove, UK
ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Es Skhul in Israel
The palaeolithic settlement of Europe
Analytical Archaeology
Palaeoanthropology and palaeolithic archaeology in the people's Republic of China
Comparative Morphometric Study of a Human Phalanx from the Lower Pleistocene Site at Cueva Victoria (Murcia, Spain), by means of Fourier Analysis, Shape Coordinates of Landmarks, Principal and Relative Warps
The Pleistocene Archaeology of Beringia
Recent Human Evolution in Northwestern Africa
The Role of Western Asia in Modern Human Origins
Recent Developments in the Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of China
The Evolution of Homo Erectus
The human colonisation of Australia
Une nouvelle industrie lithique
Multiple dispersals and modern human origins
Neandertals
Early paleolithic of China and eastern Asia
DNA and recent human evolution
The archeology of modern human origins
Genetic admixture in the Late Pleistocene
Particulate versus integrated evolution of the upper body in late pleistocene humans
Genetics and modern human origins
Sahul in Review
Patterns of Trauma among the Neandertals
The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel
The origins of modern humans
Accelerator 14C dates for early upper paleolithic (basal Aurignacian) at El Castillo Cave (Spain)
An Acheulean Industry with Prepared Core Technique and the Discovery of a Contemporary Hominid Mandible at Lake Baringo, Kenya
The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa
Postcranial robusticity in Homo . III
The evolution of modern human diversity
Abrupt Mousterian/Aurignacian boundary at c. 40 ka bp
A new insight into the Sangiran Flake Industry
Pontnewydd cave
The Evolution of Human Hunting
The Neanderthal Legacy
Timewalkers
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Groningen Radiocarbon Dates X
Piecing Together the Past
Electron Spin Resonance Dating and the Evolution of Modern Humans
Craniofacial evidence for the origin of modern humans in China
A reappraisal of the anatomical basis for speech in Middle Palaeolithic hominids
Nasal morphology and the emergence of Homo erectus
Continuity or Replacement; Controversies in Homo Sapiens Evolution
Discovery of the Nazlet Khater man, Upper Egypt
Homo erectus features used in cladistics and their variability in Asian and African hominids
Middle Pleistocene Prehistory in Southwestern Europe
Cognitive Changes and the Emergence of Modern Humans in Europe
Observations on the Earlier Phases of the European Lower Paleolithic
Anatomy, behavior, and modern human origins
The lower paleolithic of the Near East
Implications of Border Cave Skeletal Remains for Later Pleistocene Human Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The Archaeology of Perception
Fifty years after
The Human Symbolic Revolution
Before Babel
The Archaeology of Archaic and Early ModernHomo Sapiens
How old are subspecies
Climate and body shape in hominid evolution
Species recognition in human paleontology
The Neanderthal
The Upper Cave at Zhoukoudian and the origins of the Mongoloids
Explaining modern man
ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian, Anhui Province, China
Femoral neck-shaft angles of the Qafzeh-Skhul early modern humans, and activity levels among immature Near Eastern Middle Paleolithic hominids
The Multiregional Model of modern human origins
On the autapomorphic traits of Homo erectus
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