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d’Errico F, Henshilwood C, Vanhaeren M, and van Niekerk K. 2005. Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age. Journal of Human Evolution 48(1):3-24.

d'Errico F. 2003. The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity. Evolutionary Anthropology 12(4):188-202.

d'Errico F, Henshilwood CS, and Nilssen P. 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 CS, d'Errico F, Marean CW, Milo RG, and Yates R. 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(6):631-678.

Henshilwood C, D'Errico F, Van Niekerk K, Coquinot Y, Jacobs Z, Lauritzen S-E, Menu M, and Garcia-Moreno R. 2011. A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Science 334:219-222.

Henshilwood CS, d'Errico F, Yates R, Jacobs Z, Tribolo C, Duller GAT, Mercier N, Sealy JC, Valladas H, Watts I et al. 2002. Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa. Science 295:1278-1280.

Jacobs Z, Duller GAT, Wintle AG, and Henshilwood CS. 2006. Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz. Journal of Human Evolution 51:255-273.

Lombard M. 2007. Evidence for Change in Middle Stone Age Hunting Behaviour at Blombos Cave: Results of a Macrofracture Analysis. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 62(185):62-67.

McBrearty S, and Brooks AS. 2000. The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 39(5):453-563.

McCall GS. 2007. Behavioral ecological models of lithic technological change during the later Middle Stone Age of South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(10):1738-1751.

Mourre V, Villa P, and Henshilwood C. 2010. Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Science 330:659-662.

Thompson JC, and Henshilwood CS. 2011. Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age larger mammal faunal assemblage from Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 60(6):746-767.

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