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Human and human-mediated species dispersals through time : introduction and overview / Nicole Boivin -- Carnivore guilds and the impact of hominin dispersals / Margaret E. Lewis -- Pleistocene hominin dispersals, naive faunas and social networks / Robin Dennell -- Hominins on the move : an assessment of anthropogenic shaping of environments in the palaeolithic / Michael D. Petraglia -- Reconceptualising the palaeozoogeography of the sahara and the dispersal of early -- Modern humans / Nick A. Drake & Roger Blench -- Coastlines, marine ecology, and maritime dispersals in human history / Jon Erlandson -- Breaking down barriers : pre/historic dispersals across island Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia / Tim Denham -- The last great migration : human colonisation of the remote Pacific islands / Terry Hunt and Carl P. Lipo -- Dispersals, connectivity and indigeneity in Arabian prehistory / Remy Crassard & Lamya Khalidi -- Reconstructing migration trajectories using ancient DNA / Greger Larson -- Out of the Fertile Crescent : the dispersal of domestic livestock through Europe and Africa / Melinda A. Zeder -- Adapting crops, landscapes, and food choices : patterns in the dispersal of -- Domesticated plants across Eurasia / Dorian Fuller and Leilani Lucas -- Tracing the initial diffusion of maize in North America / Bruce D. Smith -- Proto-globalisation and biotic exchange in the Old World / Nicole Boivin -- Invasive eusocieties : commonalities between ants and humans / Patrizia d'Ettorre -- Species dispersions in time, space, and mind : the invasive aliens in context / Marcus Hall -- Disease dispersals in human history at multiple time scales / Mark Achtman -- Early malarial infections and the first epidemiological transition / James L.A. Webb, Jr -- The globalisations of disease / Monica Green -- Modern day population, pathogen and pest dispersals / Andrew J. Tatem.

The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Following a shift in toolkits ~67,000 years ago, novel symbolic and technological behaviors assemble in a nonunilinear manner. Against a backdrop of a persistent tropical forest-grassland ecotone, localized innovations better characterize the Late Pleistocene of this part of East Africa than alternative emphases on dramatic revolutions or migrations. ; Funding was provided by the SEALINKS project under a European Research Council (ERC) grant (no. 206148) awarded to N.B. Permission to conduct the research was granted by the Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya through affiliation with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). We are grateful for the support of the NMK and the British Institute in Eastern Africa. P.R. was funded by NERC and the Boise Fund (University of Oxford). S.J.A. and F.D. acknowledge support from the Research Council of Norway, through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) (no. 262618). FD and AP were funded by the ERC grant, TRACSYMBOLS (no. 249587), and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10- LABX-52), LaScArBx Cluster of Excellence. A.P.M. holds a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship (2014 BP-A 00122) from the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants, Government of Catalonia. A.C. and H.S.G. were funded by the British Academy. Additional support has been provided by the McDonald Institute for Archeological Research (University of Cambridge) and the Max Planck Society. For assistance in the field and with artifact analyses, we wish to thank Jackson Mupe, Yahya ...