One or more African populations embodied a particular suite of ecological, cultural, and demographic characteristics ... An Earlier Stone Age/Lower Paleolithic tool industry dating from ~1.7 ...

The finding demonstrates the Upper Paleolithic people' highly developed cognitive capacities. A sophisticated comprehension of spatial linkages and environmental characteristics is shown in the ...

They also studied the DNA of 2,000 or so Japanese, but none was found to be a direct descendant of Minatogawa 1 with shared genetic characteristics ... way from the Paleolithic age down to ...