Late Stone Age

Late Stone Age

The Late Stone Age refers to a period in African prehistory that is contemporaneous with the Upper Paleolithic. The late stone age (LSA) follows the Middle Stone Age and is believed to have begun about 50,000 years ago. Like the Upper Paleolithic, the LSA is characterised by a much wider variety in stone artifacts than the previous MSA period. These artifacts vary with time and location, unlike MSA technology which appeared to have been in relative stasis for several hundreds of thousands of years. LSA technology is also characterised by the use of bone tools. The LSA is often assoiciated with Modern human behavior. [cite book
last=klein
first=Richard
authorlink=Richard Klein (paleoanthropologist)
title=The Dawn of Human Culture
year =2003
isbn=0471252522
chapter=Body before behavior
chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=vbuBVJAC4VMC&pg=PA231&dq=lsa+dawn+of+human+culture&ei=qc_TSLmgFJ6ujgHd6tHmAw&sig=ACfU3U2o0-MLYcKfChKaDywiutqcSPey7w]

ee also

*Upper Paleolithic
*Middle Stone Age
*Enkapune Ya Muto

Footnotes

Further reading

*cite book|title=Human Beginnings in South Africa|last=Deacon|first=Hilary|authorlink=Hilary Deacon|isbn=0864864175
chapter=Learning about the past|year=1999
chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V6Gx5pSpkioC&pg=PA5&dq=%22late+stone+age%22+deacon&lr=&ei=wG7YSJT1OIScswOT2KHeDg&sig=ACfU3U1i6lpgkIdXfXijw7CCB1WGhpbzbw
* [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~pwilloug/research.htm The Stone Age of southern Tanzania]
*cite journal|title=Chronology of the Later Stone Age and Food Production in East Africa|year=1998|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH8-45J568C-2G&_user=489297&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000023739&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=489297&md5=47d8b2574da74b045c189bbf9c14054d
doi=10.1006/jasc.1997.0277

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