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Middle Stone Age

noun

, Anthropology.
  1. the Mesolithic period.


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Our results, published in Nature earlier this month, reveal valuable insights into human cultural evolution, including how Middle Stone Age populations interacted with the dead.

Even if it’s true Mtoto is the oldest burial in Africa, more Middle Stone Age burials have been found in Eurasia and the Middle East than in Africa.

Stone tools typical of Africa’s Middle Stone Age had turned up in the same sediment, giving researchers a sense of how old the bones were.

I’m interested in Middle Stone Age life—100,000 years ago, 50,000 years ago.

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