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Techno-Modes, Techno-Facies and Palaeo-Cultures: Change and Continuity in the Pleistocene of Southeast, Central and North Asia

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The technological persistence seen in many stone tool industries in Asia appears to stand in contrast to trajectories of change observed in lithic industries from the Afro-European Pleistocene; a condition that has sparked considerable debate, but remains unresolved. This chapter revisits this debate from an inter-regional ­perspective in light of recent research in Southeast, Central, and North (the Siberian Altai) Asia. It concludes that the emphasis on cultural continuity in the Asian record, in particular where this likely pertains to Homo sapiens, cannot be accounted for satisfactorily by traditionally cited causes. Instead, it supports the hypothesis that during its Pleistocene diaspora, there existed more than one behavioural trajectory within our species; that it is this which is preserved in the divergence of Afro-European/Asian records; and that behavioural “modernity” was less a pan-species trait from its inception than it was a phenomenon that emerged through the process of adaptation during that diaspora, not only within Africa but also in response to the environments and settings beyond it.

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I would like to thank Marc Vander Linden and Ben Roberts for inviting me to contribute to the Cultural Transmission volume. The ideas and content presented in this chapter form part of a wider investigation that I am undertaking into the role of regionalism in the emergence of modern human behaviour; funding for this is being provided by the John Templeton Foundation (Grant no. 1104/RG45799) and gratefully acknowledged. I am also very grateful for the helpful suggestions and comments of my colleagues during this chapter’s preparation, most notably Rebecca Farbstein, Phil Piper, Liz Raddatz, Tim Reynolds, Mohd Mokhtar Saidin, Brian Stewart and Christopher Stimpson. Any outstanding mistakes or inaccuracies, though, remain entirely my own.

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Rabett, R.J. (2011). Techno-Modes, Techno-Facies and Palaeo-Cultures: Change and Continuity in the Pleistocene of Southeast, Central and North Asia. In: Roberts, B., Vander Linden, M. (eds) Investigating Archaeological Cultures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6970-5_6

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