New study finds `staying longer at home` was key to stone age technology change 60,000 years ago
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

A new study by scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand suggests that at about 58,000 years ago, Stone Age humans began to settle down, staying in one area for longer periods. The research also provides a potential answer to a long-held mystery: why older, Howiesons Poort complex technological tradition in South Africa, suddenly disappear at that time.