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| Title |
A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania
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| Published in |
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.1098/rstb.2015.0238 |
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| Authors |
Christian A. Tryon, J. Tyler Faith |
| Abstract |
Increased population density is among the proposed drivers of the behavioural changes culminating in the Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA-LSA) transition and human dispersals from East Africa, but reliable archaeological measures of demographic change are lacking. We use Late Pleistocene-Holocene lithic and faunal data from Nasera rockshelter (Tanzania) to show progressive declines in residential mobility-a variable linked to population density-and technological shifts, the latter associated with environmental changes. These data suggest that the MSA-LSA transition is part of a long-term pattern of changes in residential mobility and technology that reflect human responses to increased population density, with dispersals potentially marking a complementary response to larger populations.This article is part of the themed issue 'Major transitions in human evolution'. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 83% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 67 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 21% |
| Researcher | 12 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 13% |
| Professor | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 8 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | 24 | 36% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 22% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2023.
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