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5) Sparks vs. Fire — What the Sites Show on the Scale
C1–C2 “sparks” (fragile codes).
Blombos Cave (South Africa, 77–73 kya): engraved ochre plaquettes;
shell beads; bone tools—
“deliberate, structured engraving,
”
yet the
tradition ends with Still Bay [Henshilwood et al., 2002].
Diepkloof (South Africa, 60–52 kya): >270 ostrich-eggshell fragments
with standardized motifs (likely identity marks on water flasks), then
motifs disappear after Howieson’s Poort [Texier et al.,
2010].Interpretation: capability, not continuity (C1→C2, then collapse).
C4 “ignition” (cumulative culture).
Aurignacian (Europe, 45–35 kya): Löwenmensch figurine (~40 kya),
Hohle Fels flutes (~42 kya), Chauvet cave art (~36 kya)—a cultural
package that multiplies and persists [Conard, 2009; Mellars, 2006].
Sulawesi (Indonesia,
~45 kya): hand stencils and figurative animals—
global symbolic capacity, not a European one-off [Aubert et al., 2014].
Table 7.3 — Sparks vs. Fire (assigned levels)
