We describe the results of a microscopic analysis of bone surfaces subjected to throwing, stabbing and butchering activities performed with replicated hafted Middle Stone Age lithic points. We propose that, based on certain ...

Variability in the size of laminar (blade/bladelet) components has been used as a distinguishing feature between two archaeological signatures in the interior of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. These signatures ...

The authors deliver a decisive blow to the idea of unidirectional behavioural and cognitive evolution in this tightly argued account of why the bow and arrow was invented and then possibly laid aside by Middle Stone Age ...