Archaeological Evidence Suggests No Direct Link between Climate Change and Early Human Innovation (IMAGE)

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Archaeological Evidence Suggests No Direct Link between Climate Change and Early Human Innovation

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Archaeological sites suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern Africa, according to a study published July 6, 2016, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Patrick Roberts from the University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues.

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Christopher Henshilwood

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