Lower Paleolithic - Transition To The Middle Paleolithic

Transition To The Middle Paleolithic

Further information: Homo rhodesiensis and Anatomically modern humans

From about 300,000 years ago, technology, social structures and behaviour appear to grow more complex, with prepared-core technique lithics, earliest instances of burial and hunting-gathering subsistence. Homo sapiens first appears about 200,000 years ago.

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