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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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Materiality and human cognition [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, we examine the role of materiality in human cognition. We address issues such as the ways in which brain functions may change in response to interactions with material forms, the attributes of material forms that may cause change in brain ...
Overmann, Karenleigh, Wynn, Thomas
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The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: Implications for the evolution of material culture [PDF]
, 2015 Cultural evolutionary approaches highlight that different social learning processes may be involved in the maintenance of cultural traditions. Inevitably, for traditions to be maintained, they must be transmitted with reasonably fidelity.
Lycett, SJ, Mesoudi, A, Schillinger, K
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Boreas, EarlyView.The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida +5 more
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Comparison of handaxes from Bose Basin (China) and the western Acheulean indicates convergence of form, not cognitive differences. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Alleged differences between Palaeolithic assemblages from eastern Asia and the west have been the focus of controversial discussion for over half a century, most famously in terms of the so-called 'Movius Line'.
Wei Wang +4 more
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta +4 more
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Woodstock Rocks: From Acheulean to Iron Age in the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Southern African Field Archaeology, 2023 The cliff terrace site, Woodstock Rocks, was exploited occasionally by hominins from the Earlier Stone Age to the Iron Age. A small excavation uncovered an Acheulean quartzite workshop with many flakes, but lacking large cutting tools and without ...
Lyn Wadley +5 more
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Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive archaeology and the evolution of the human mind [PDF]
, 2019 Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Edited by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A.
Coolidge, Frederick Lawrence +1 more
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Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This paper investigates how participants recruit Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as interactional co‐participants depending on their temporal enmeshment within an interactional flow. Using Charles Goodwin's co‐operative action framework, we analyze video data of human–AI interaction to trace the temporal structures established by ...
Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva
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The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan–Acheulean in southern Africa [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018 The influence of climatic and environmental change on human evolution in the Pleistocene epoch is understood largely from extensive East African stable isotope records. These records show increasing proportions of C4 plants in the Early Pleistocene.
Ecker, M +5 more
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