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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S40-S49, June 2026.
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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"Two tribes": Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional cultural groups in southeastern Britain between 424 000 and 374 000 BP

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-621, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Ceri Shipton, Rob Davis, Nick Ashton   +5 more
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Small tools within Mode 2 technology in the Lower Palaeolithic of Italy: use-wear analysis of the chipped stone tools assemblage of the Latium site of Fontana Ranuccio (Italy)

IpoTESI di Preistoria, 2019
Recent technological studies of lithic assemblages from Levantine and European Late Lower Palaeolithic showed that the small size flakes (small tools) found in many sites of this period are relevant technological elements.
Flavia Marinelli, Cristina Lemorini, Daniela Zampetti   +2 more
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Occurrence of Crocuta (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from a potential Middle Pleistocene site at Pirro Nord (Apricena, southern Italy)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 552-557, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The Pirro Nord quarry has yielded evidence of one of the earliest hominin presences in western Europe, accompanied by an extremely rich and diverse collection of vertebrate remains, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and small and large mammals.
Alessio Iannucci, Dario Stefanelli, Jacopo Conti, Maria Marino, Raffaele Sardella   +4 more
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Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Despite occupying a central geographic position, investigations of hominin populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Lower Palaeolithic period are rare.
Ceri Shipton, James Blinkhorn, Paul S Breeze, Patrick Cuthbertson, Nick Drake, Huw S Groucutt, Richard P Jennings, Ash Parton, Eleanor M L Scerri, Abdullah Alsharekh, Michael D Petraglia   +10 more
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The Acheulean is a temporally cohesive tradition

World Archaeology, 2022
The Acheulean has long been considered a single, unified tradition. Decades of morphometric and technological evidence supports such an understanding by demonstrating that a single fundamental Bauplan was followed for more than 1.6 million years. What remains unknown is whether sites assigned to the Acheulean represent multiple socially-independent ...
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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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Blank predetermination in the Iberian Acheulean. Insight from the cleaver on flake assemblage of Casal do Azemel site (Leiria, Portugal) by a Geometric Morphometric approach

Journal of Lithic Studies
Over the last decades, the increase of data available for the study of the archaeological topic in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene has favoured the understanding of the technological trends of the Iberian Acheulean assemblages.
Carlos Ferreira, Eduardo Méndez-Quintas, João Pedro Cunha-Ribeiro   +2 more
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3D shape analysis and balance in Acheulean bifacial tools

UISPP Journal, 2022
The goal of this paper is to present a new methodology designed to identify and quantify the location of the Center of Mass (CM) in Acheulean bifacial stone tools.
James Kilpatrick
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The Victoria West: earliest prepared core technology in the Acheulean at Canteen Kopje and implications for the cognitive evolution of early hominids [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
Prepared core technology illustrates in-depth planning and the presence of a mental template during the core reduction process. This technology is, therefore, a significant indicator in studying the evolution of abstract thought and the cognitive ...
Hao Li, Kathleen Kuman, Matt G. Lotter, George M. Leader, Ryan J. Gibbon   +4 more
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