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d'Errico, Francesco, Christopher Henshilwood and Peter Nillssen 2001. An engraved bone fragment from c. 70,000-year-old Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for the origin of symbolism and language. Antiquity 75:309-318.

Henshilwood, C.S., J. C. Sealy, R. Yates, K. Cruz-Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, R. G. Klein, C. Poggenpohl, K. van Niekerk, and I. Watts
2001. Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary report on the 1992-1999 excavations of the Middle Stone Age levels. Journal of Archaeological Science 28(4):421-448.

Henshilwood, C.S., Francesco d'Errico, Curtis W. Marean, Richard G. Milo, Royden Yates
2001. An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism, and language. Journal of Human Evolution 41:631-678.

Marean, Curtis W. and Peter John Nilssen
2001. The Mossel Bay Archaeological Project (MAP). Background and Preliminary Results from Test Excavations at Pinnacle Point, Mossel Bay. Progress Report prepared for the South African Heritage Resource Agency by SUNY at Stony Brook.

McBrearty, S. and A.S. Brooks
2000. The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 39: 453-563.

Wilford, John Noble 2001. African Artifacts suggest an Earlier Modern Human. New York Times, December 2, 2001.

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