... Among the dozen or so southern African Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites with human fossils that date to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6e3 (Grine, 2016), KRMS has featured prominently in discussions of the emergence of modern human behavior and morphology (Grine et al., 2017a). This is owing to its rich artifactual and faunal records (e.g., Klein, 1976Klein, , 1989Singer and Wymer, 1982;Thackeray and Kelly, 1988;Thackeray, 1989;Turner, 1989;Deacon, 1992Deacon, , 2008Klein and Cruz-Uribe, 1996;Milo, 1998; Bartram and Marean, 1999;Klein et al., 1999;Wurz, 1999Wurz, , 2002Wurz, , 2008Wurz, , 2012van Pletzen, 2000;Wurz et al., 2003;von den Driesch, 2004;Deacon and Wurz, 2005;McCall, 2006McCall, , 2007Dusseldorp, 2010;d'Errico et al., 2012) together with a comparatively abundant assemblage of human remains (e.g., Singer and Wymer, 1982;White, 1987;Deacon, 1991, 2001;Br€ auer et al., 1992;Smith, 1992;Frayer et al., 1993;Churchill et al., 1996;Lam et al., 1996;Br€ auer and Singer, 1996a, b;Pearson and Grine, 1997;Grine et al., 1998;Groves, 1998;Pearson et al., 1998;Groves and Thorne, 2000;Rightmire et al., 2006;Royer et al., 2009;Grine et al., 2017a). ...