Linked from

The 14 pages that link to Middle Stone Age, each with the reason it gives.

• Human evolutionRelated: Its artifacts help assess when behaviors associated with modern humans appeared.

• PaleolithicRelated: Its evidence challenges accounts that locate behavioral innovation only in Europe.

• MousterianCompared with: Its regional industries complicate any claim that the Mousterian represents a universal Middle Paleolithic.

• Blombos CaveNarrower topic: Blombos’s archaeological layers belong to this broad technological period.

• Cognitive revolutionBroader topic: African finds from this period place symbolic practices earlier than classic European timelines.

• Recent African origin of modern humansRelated: Its archaeological record provides context for behavioral and technological change during early Homo sapiens history.

• Jebel IrhoudNarrower topic: Jebel Irhoud connects early Homo sapiens fossils with a substantial archaeological record.

• Middle PaleolithicCompared with: It provides the parallel regional framework for comparing African and Eurasian technologies.

• Prehistoric artNarrower topic: Engraved ochre from this period pushes evidence of symbolic marking far earlier than many cave paintings.

• Lower PaleolithicCompared with: Regional terminology differs, so Africa’s sequence is not simply labeled Lower Paleolithic.

• Behavioral modernityNarrower topic: Its sites preserve many early technologies and symbolic objects discussed as evidence of behavioral modernity.

• Hadza peopleNarrower topic: Nearby archaeological sites document ancient occupations, not direct proof of uninterrupted Hadza ancestry.

• Early modern humanRelated: Its material record provides context for many early Homo sapiens populations.

• Prehistoric AfricaBroader topic: Its industries reveal technological change among early Homo sapiens and other hominins.