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Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology?

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Transitions to the Howiesons Poort Industry and other early modern human cultural phases have conventionally been explained as direct or indirect responses to major climatic and ecological fluctuations. Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating have now provided the time resolution necessary to refute these explanations. However, for improvements in dating methods to have a revolutionary impact on the archaeology of early modern human evolution, the correction of these flawed narratives can only be regarded as a first step. What is more important is that the discipline now embraces the opportunity to analyse cultural entities in terms of their internal temporal structure, and hence to realign praxis with contemporary evolutionary theory.

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We gratefully acknowledge the helpful information and advice provided to us by Bert Roberts and Guillaume Porraz during the production of this paper. We also thank Mark Moore, Simon Holdaway, Peter Hiscock and three anonymous referees for providing comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript.

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Cochrane, G.W.G., Doelman, T. & Wadley, L. Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology?. J Archaeol Method Theory 20, 42–60 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-011-9125-0

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