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MITOCHONDRIAL DNA AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF PREHISTORIC NORTH AFRICAN POPULATIONS
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Troll Patrol: [QB] [QUOTE] [qb]Originally posted by Doug M: In other words, stone tool technology arose first in Africa among modern hominids and spread outward, along with writing, language, culture, art and everything else. All of which goes totally against the nonsense of the white supremacists. [/qb][/QUOTE]The Aterian and its place in the North African Middle Stone Age Eleanor M.L. Scerri Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO), 65A Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK Abstract [QUOTE] The Aterian is a frequently cited manifestation of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) of North Africa, yet its character and meaning have remained largely opaque, as attention has focused almost exclusively on the typology of ‘tanged’, or ‘pedunculated’, lithics. Observations of technological similarities between the Aterian and other regional technocomplexes suggest that the Aterian should be considered within the wider context of the North African MSA and not as an isolated phenomenon. This paper critically reviews the meaning and history of research of the Aterian. This highlights a number of serious issues with definitions and interpretations of this technocomplex, ranging from a lack of definitional consensus to problems with the common view of the Aterian as a ‘desert adaptation’. Following this review, the paper presents the results of a quantitative study of six North African MSA assemblages [b](Aterian, Nubian Complex and ‘MSA’). [/b] Correspondence and Principal Components Analyses are applied, which suggest that the patterns of similarity and difference demonstrated do not simplistically correlate with traditional divisions between named industries. These similarity patterns are instead structured geographically and it is suggested that they reflect a population differentiation that cannot be explained by isolation and distance alone. Particular results include the apparent uniqueness of Haua Fteah compared to all the other assemblages and the observation that the Aterian in northeast Africa is more similar to the Nubian in that region than to the Aterian in the Maghreb. The study demonstrates the existence of population structure in the North African MSA, which has important implications for the evolutionary dynamics of modern human dispersals. [/QUOTE] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618212031813 Aterian and Mousterian in North Africa [QUOTE] Analysis and Conclusion It's hard to say when the transition between the Mousterian and Aterian industries took place and the relationship between the two is unclear. While the Aterian industry has been dated between 90,000 to 61,000 years BP, the Mousterian industry had yet to be dated. Further studies are needed due to the fact that the two industries share similar technological and typological organizations. During the Aterian tool phase there was a presence of tanged points that could represent well transient (hunting) camps. [/QUOTE]--Cremaschi, Mauro, et al. "Some Insights on the Aterian in the Libyan Sahara: Chronology, Environment, and Archeology." African Archaeological, Vol. 15, No. 4. 1998. http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/P314/MSA%20reports/Aterian.pdf Behavioral Changes in the Later Middle to Earlier Late Pleistocene, Viewed From the Eastern Sahara http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9780387246581-c2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-331002-p46421015 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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