Dubreuil Benoit’s scientific contributions

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Reading the artifacts: gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa
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Christopher Stuart Henshilwood

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Dubreuil Benoit

This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also considers parallel developments among Europe's Neanderthals and the contrasting outcomes for the two species. Following an extensive introduction contextualizing and linking the book's topics and approaches, fifteen chapters bring together many of the most significant recent findings and developments in modern human origins research. The fields represented by the authors include genetics, biology, behavioural ecology, linguistics, archaeology, cognitive science, and anthropology.

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... In recent years, several scenarios have been proposed to assess the use of these colours for cultural, medical, and artistic purposes. The emergence of human symbolism and a sense of art is usually related to the evolution of the complexity of human cognition (Watts, 2002(Watts, , 2010McBrearty and Brooks, 2000;d'Errico et al., 2003;d'Errico et al., 2010;Henshilwood and Marean, 2003;Henshilwood and Dubreuil, 2009). Recent archaeological data testify to the earliest use of red pigments in Africa and the Near East during the Middle Stone Age (Watts, 1999(Watts, , 2002Rigaud et al., 2006;Jacobs et al., 2006;Bar-Yosef Mayer et al., 2009;Zilhão, 2012). ...

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New evidence reveals the earliest use of cinnabar in the western Mediterranean: The Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta (Lazio, Italy)
Reading the artifacts: gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa
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  • April 2009