A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”

A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”

McBrearty and Brooks (2000) provide us with a very important review of the African archaeological evidence. Two core claims are offered from that review: (1) modern behavior emerges gradually, not abruptly; and (2) it emerges in Africa, not in Europe. According to both claims, McBrearty and Brooks c...

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Main Author: Víctor Manuel LONGA MARTÍNEZ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2010-08-01
Series:Zephyrus
Subjects:
modelo de “revolución humana”
conducta moderna
sally mcbrearty
allison brooks
paleolítico superior
Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0514-7336/article/view/7231
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A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”
Zephyrus
modelo de “revolución humana”
conducta moderna
sally mcbrearty
allison brooks
paleolítico superior
author_facet Víctor Manuel LONGA MARTÍNEZ
author_sort Víctor Manuel LONGA MARTÍNEZ
title A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”
title_short A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”
title_full A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”
title_fullStr A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”
title_full_unstemmed A critical note on Mcbrearty and Brooks (2000) “The revolution that wasn’t”
title_sort critical note on mcbrearty and brooks (2000) “the revolution that wasn’t”
publisher Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
series Zephyrus
issn 0514-7336
2386-3943
publishDate 2010-08-01
description McBrearty and Brooks (2000) provide us with a very important review of the African archaeological evidence. Two core claims are offered from that review: (1) modern behavior emerges gradually, not abruptly; and (2) it emerges in Africa, not in Europe. According to both claims, McBrearty and Brooks criticize the “human revolution” model. My paper aims at showing that the second claim is not denied by any of the proponents of such a model. In fact, all of them consider modern behaviour to have emerged in Africa, not in Europe.
topic modelo de “revolución humana”
conducta moderna
sally mcbrearty
allison brooks
paleolítico superior
url https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0514-7336/article/view/7231
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