@article {9475,
	title = {Why We Need an Alternative Approach to the  Study of Modern Human Behaviour},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {37},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {021-047},
	abstract = {<p>In this paper we review recent developments in the debate over the emergence of modern human behaviour (MHB) to show that despite considerable diversity among competing models, the identification of given material traits still underpins almost all current perspectives. This approach, however, allows assumptions over the biological relationship between archaic and modern humans to permeate the definitions of MHB and, as a result, has effectively stultified archaeology\&rsquo;s potential contribution to the issue. We suggest that the concept of MHB as currently defined is flawed. It must either be redefined in strictly behavioural terms before reincorporation into the debate over modern human origins or, more productively, discarded all together to avoid the harsh and unrealistic dichotomy it creates between a modern and non-modern archaeological record.</p>},
	author = {Christopher J. H. Ames and Julien Riel-Salvatore and Benjamin R. Collins}
}
