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Scientists from the Nagoya University Museum, Japan, have found that the cultural revolution in ancient humans 40-50 thousand years ago, when Homo sapiens surpassed Neanderthals, was a much more complex process than previously thought. This is reported in an article published in the journal Nature Communications.
Researchers have uncovered new circumstances for the cultural transition between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. During the Middle Paleolithic period from 250,000 to 40,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans coexisted with Neanderthals and Archaic humans and had similar techniques for making stone tools. For example, they often used the levloa method, where debris was chipped away with a hammer-like tool
