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82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

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2007

Authors

Bouzouggar , Abdeljalil
Barton , Nick
Vanhaeren , Marian
d'Errico , Francesco
Collcuttt, S
Higham, Thomas F. G.
Hodge , Edward
Parfitt, S
Rhodes, Edward
Schwenninger, J

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National Academy of Sciences (USA)

Abstract

The first appearance of explicitly symbolic objects in the archaeological record marks a fundamental stage in the emergence of modern social behavior in Homo. Ornaments such as shell beads represent some of the earliest objects of this kind. We report on

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Keywords: Africa; archeology; article; Asia; behavior; color; cultural anthropology; Europe; human; luminescence; materials; optics; priority journal; seashore; sediment; symbolism; animal; archeology; chemistry; cultural anthropology; fossil; history; snail; Colum Anatomically modern humans; Middle Palaeolithic; Modern behavior; Nassarius shells; Optically stimulated luminescence

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/37274

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PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Journal article

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10.1073/pnas.0703877104

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2037-12-31

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