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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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The manipulative complexity of Lower Paleolithic stone toolmaking. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Early stone tools provide direct evidence of human cognitive and behavioral evolution that is otherwise unavailable. Proper interpretation of these data requires a robust interpretive framework linking archaeological evidence to specific behavioral and ...
Aldo Faisal, Dietrich Stout, Jan Apel, Bruce Bradley   +3 more
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Stage or Sub-Stage: The Contribution of Small Mammals to the Characterization of Middle Pleistocene Local Climate Variation

Quaternary, 2023
In western Europe, the Middle Pleistocene is marked by Acheulean settlement and their diversification after the MIS 12. The Arago cave recovery of numerous human settlements correlate to MIS 14, 13 and MIS 12 making it an important site for the ...
Loïc Lebreton, Juan Manuel López-García   +1 more
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Flake morphology as a record of manual pressure during stone tool production [PDF]

, 2017
Relative to the hominin fossil record there is an abundance of lithic artefacts within Pleistocene sequences. Therefore, stone tools offer an important source of information regarding hominin behaviour and evolution.
Abramoff, Almécija, Almécija, Ambrose, Beaune, Bello, Bello, Chai, Cotterell, Cotterell, de Beaune, Delagnes, Dibble, Dibble, Dogandžić, Eren, Eren, Faisal, Gamble, Gowlett, Gowlett, Hamrick, Harmand, Isaac, Key, Key, Key, Key, Key, Kivell, Krantz, Lycett, Lycett, Magnani, Maki, Marzke, Marzke, Marzke, Marzke, Morgan, Napier, Newcomer, Nonaka, Pfleging, Rolian, Roux, Roux, Schillinger, Semaw, Sharon, Shaw, Skinner, Stemp, Stephens, Stout, Stout, Stout, Stout, Tocheri, Toth, Uomini, Washburn, Weedman Arthur, Williams, Williams, Williams, Williams-Hatala, Winton, Wynn, Zupancich   +69 more
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L’enfant « différent » au Paléolithique

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2021
Over the last thirty years, archaeology has developed a renewed interest in the question of how societies of the past dealt with disability and difference.
Hélène Coqueugniot
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Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions

, 2019
North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
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Less of a bird’s song than a hard rock ensemble [PDF]

, 2017
Corbey et al. (2016) have written an interesting and thoughtful paper designed to provoke debate surrounding one of the most important and persistent Stone Age artefacts, the Acheulean handaxe.
Arsuaga, Ashton, Ashton, Ashton, Ashton, Bello, Binford, Binneman, Bridgland, Bridgland, Britton, Brumm, Cole, Cole, Conway, Corbey, Cruse, Dennell, Dennell, Dominguez-Rodrigo, Drake, Drake, Gamble, Gowlett, Gowlett, Hardaker, Hodgson, Hopkinson, Hubbard, Isaac, Jennings, Jones, Jones, Jones, Julien, Keeley, Keeley, Kempe, Klein, Lhomme, Lisiecki, Lycett, Lycett, Lycett, MacDonald, Machin, Marshall, McNabb, McNabb, Mitchell, Mithen, Moncel, Movius, Parfitt, Petraglia, Pitts, Pope, Preece, Roberts, Roe, Santonja, Schlereth, Sharon, Shaw, Shennan, Singer, Solodenko, Stout, Tester, Tocheri, Walker, Wang, Wenban-Smith, Wenban-Smith, White, White, White, White, White, White, Wymer, Yravedra   +81 more
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Reconstructing the Classical and Post‐Classical Agricultural Landscape of the Udhruh Qanat in Wādī al‐Fiqai, Southern Jordan

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The cities of Petra and Udhruh were administrative and cultural centers in southern Jordan from Nabataean through Roman and Byzantine times into the early Islamic periods (first century BCE to eighth century CE). These communities built water harvesting systems to be able to survive in this arid environment.
Marcel R. Hoosbeek, Ángel Velasco Sánchez, Roeland Emaus, Fawzi Abudanah, Mark J. Driessen   +4 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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Recognizing the future utility of a solution: When do children choose to retain and share an object to solve a future problem?

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 958-973, November 2025.
Abstract Humans' ability to recognize the future utility of a solution is fundamental to our capacity for innovation. It motivates us to—for instance—retain and share useful tools, transforming one‐time solutions into innovations that change the future.
Zoe Ockerby, Jonathan Redshaw, Thomas Suddendorf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source