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Reevaluating the Human Revolution by Franco Giusti is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document challenges the idea of a "human revolution" around 40-50,000 years ago that marked a sudden transition to modern human behavior. The authors argue that many behaviors thought to emerge then, like specialized hunting, long-distance trade, and symbolic artifacts, are in fact found tens of thousands of years earlier in the Middle Stone Age of Africa. They believe the archaeological record from Africa, where modern humans first evolved, shows behaviors gradually emerging over a long period rather

Author

Franco Giusti

Language

EN