Modern human behaviour and Pleistocene Sahul in review

摘要: The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe has furnished a 'package' of archaeologically visible innovations that are claimed reflect modern human behaviour. McBrearty and Brooks (2000) documented the gradual assembling package over 200,000 year period African Stone Age proposed it was later exported other regions Old World. Mellars (2006) recently humans quickly spread from Africa with behaviours colonised not only but also southern Asia ultimately Australia. In this paper, we examine late Pleistocene-early Holocene archaeological record Sahul establish if brought here by earliest colonising groups. We find is evident at sites; rather, its components were gradually assembled 30,000 following initial occupation continent anatomically behaviourally humans. review further supports view there currently no traits can be used behaviour, as appear different continents times, times locations within such This identifies chronological geographical patterning individual 'traits' proposes six 'zones innovation' across