This Bibliography of Behavioral Modernity was assembled as background for the photo essay on Shell Beads and Behavioral Modernity.
Also see the definition of Behavioral Modernity, based in part on McBrearty and Brooks listed below.
Bibliographic Resources on Behavioral Modernity
Adler, Daniel S., Guy Bar-Oz, Anna Belfer-Cohen, and Ofer Bar-Yosef 2006 Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus. Current Anthropology 47(1):89-118.
Ambrose, Stanley H. 1998 Chronology of the Later Stone Age and Food Production in East Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 25(4):377-392.
Backwell, Lucinda, Francesco d'Errico, and Lyn Wadley 2008 Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(6):1566-1580.
Balme, Jane and Kate Morse 2006 Shell beads and social behaviour in Pleistocene Australia. Antiquity 80(310):799-811.
Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E., Bernard Vandermeersch, and Ofer Bar-Yosef 2009 Shells and ochre in Middle Paleolithic Qafzeh Cave, Israel: indications for modern behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 56(3):307-314.
Barton, R. N. E., et al. In press OSL dating of the Aterian levels at Dar es-Soltan I (Rabat, Morocco) and implications for the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens. Quaternary Science Reviews: in press.
Bednarik, Robert G. 2001 Beads and pendants of the Pleistocene. Anthropos 96(2001):545-555.
Bouzouggar, A., et al. 2007 82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(24):9964-9969.
d'Errico, Francesco 2003 The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity. Evolutionary Anthropology 12(4):188-202.
d'Errico, Francesco, Christopher S. Henshilwood, and Peter Nilssen 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 75309-318.
d'Errico, Francesco and Marian Vanhaeren 2002 Criteria for Identifying Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) Age and Sex from Their Canines. Application to the Study of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ornaments. Journal of Archaeological Science 29(2):211-232.
d'Errico, Francesco, Christopher Henshilwood, Marian Vanhaeren, and Karen van Niekerke 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, Francesco, Marian Vanhaeren, and Lyn Wadley 2008 Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(10):2675-2685.
Henshilwood, Christopher S., et al. 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.
Hill K, Barton M, and Hurtado AM. 2009. The emergence of human uniqueness: Characters underlying behavioral modernity. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 18(5):187-200.
Mackay, Alex and Aara Welz 2008 Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(6):1521-1532.
McBrearty, Sally and Alison S. Brooks 2000 The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 39(5):453-563.
Norton CJ, and Jin JJH. 2009. The evolution of modern human behavior in East Asia: Current perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 18(6):247-260.
Orton, Jayson 2008 Later Stone Age ostrich eggshell bead manufacture in the Northern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(7):1765-1775.
Rossano, Matt J. 2009. Ritual Behaviour and the Origins of Modern Cognition. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(2):243-256.
Shea, John J. 2001 The Middle Paleolithic: Early Modern Humans and Neanderthals in the Levant. Near Eastern Archaeology 64(1-2):38-64.
Spikins, Penny 2009 Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(2):179-201.
Stringer, Chris 2002 Modern human origins: progress and prospects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 357(1420):563-579.
Vanhaeren, Marian and Francesco d'Errico 2006 Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1105-1128.
Vanhaeren, Marian and Francesco d'Errico 2002 Chapter 10: The Body Ornaments Associated with the Burial. Pp. 154-186 in Portrait of the Artist as a Child: The Gravettian Human Skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho and its Archeological Context, edited by João Zilhão and Erik Trinkaus. Instituto Português de Arqueologia: Lisbon.
Vanhaeren, Marian and Francesco d'Errico 2005 Grave goods from the Saint-Germain-la-Rivière burial: Evidence for social inequality in the Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24(2):117-134.
Vanhaeren, Marian, et al. 2006 Middle Paleolithic Shell Beads in Israel and Algeria. Science 312:1785-1788.
Yeshurun, Reuven, Guy Bar-Oz, and Mina Weinstein-Evron 2007 Modern hunting behavior in the early Middle Paleolithic: Faunal remains from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution 53(6):656-677.
Zilhão, João 2007 The Emergence of Ornaments and Art: An Archaeological Perspective on the Origins of "Behavioral Modernity". Journal of Archaeological Research 15(1):1-54.
