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East Africa Cave Changes Story of Human Evolution

Archaeologists have long ignored the region, but the new discovery is rewriting history.
The first substantial cave record from coastal Kenya ranges from the Middle Stone Age to the Iron Age, showing gradual changes in cultural, technological and symbolic innovations beginning at 67,000 years ago.
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In the story of human evolution, East Africa has received short shrift. Archaeologists have long thought men and women marched toward technological progress in the continent’s northern and southern regions before migrating across the globe. But an enormous cave

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