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Did abrupt climate change spark human culture?

CARDIFF U. (UK) — Rapid climate change 80,000 to 40,000 years ago, the Middle Stone Age, may have sparked cultural innovation in early modern humans, according to new research. Scientists studied a marine sediment core off the coast of South Africa and reconstructed terrestrial climate variability over the last 100,000 years. Their research is published this month in Nature Communications.

Martin Ziegler, Cardiff University School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, says: “We found that South Africa experienced rapid climate transitions toward wetter conditions at times when the Northern Hemisphere experienced extremely...

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Published By: Society & Culture - Futurity - Wednesday, 22 May