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The acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? [PDF]
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2016 Raymond Corbey +2 more
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An experimental test of the accumulated copying error model of cultural mutation for Acheulean handaxe size. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Archaeologists interested in explaining changes in artifact morphology over long time periods have found it useful to create models in which the only source of change is random and unintentional copying error, or 'cultural mutation'.
Marius Kempe +2 more
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 649-664, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract The Hula Valley has two key Acheulian sites: Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY), a large flake Acheulian site with hundreds of basalt bifaces and a significant number of flint handaxes, and Ma'ayan Barukh (MB), where more than 3500 flint handaxes were collected.
Meir Finkel +5 more
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Narrating Palaeolithic Human Settlement History : the case of the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea [PDF]
International Journal of Korean History, 2014 This article intends to furnish a narrative story-telling with the broad perspective on the human past rather than simply depending on the analytical examination of archaeological data.
Yongwook Yoo
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The appearance of the Acheulean and the production of new bifacial tools marked a revolution in human behavior. The use of longer and complex operative chains, with centripetal and recurrent knapping, adapted to different raw materials, created long ...
Paula García-Medrano +6 more
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Experimental Insights into the Cognitive Significance of Early Stone Tools. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Stone-flaking technology is the most enduring evidence for the evolving cognitive abilities of our early ancestors. Flake-making was mastered by African hominins ~3.3 ma, followed by the appearance of handaxes ~1.75 ma and complex stone reduction ...
Mark W Moore, Yinika Perston
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Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: an experimental assessment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Ethnographic research highlights that there are constraints placed on the time available to produce cultural artefacts in differing circumstances. Given that copying error, or cultural 'mutation', can have important implications for the evolutionary ...
Kerstin Schillinger +2 more
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Further Thoughts on the Genetic Argument for Handaxes [PDF]
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2019 AbstractThe Acheulean handaxe has always been considered a social phenomenon. Corbey et al.35provide a major challenge to this argument, arguing quite rightly, that it has never been independently established that handaxe temporal depth is a product of intergenerational social learning.
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AGMT3-D: A software for 3-D landmarks-based geometric morphometric shape analysis of archaeological artifacts. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 We present here a newly developed software package named Artifact GeoMorph Toolbox 3-D (AGMT3-D). It is intended to provide archaeologists with a simple and easy-to-use tool for performing 3-D landmarks-based geometric morphometric shape analysis on 3-D ...
Gadi Herzlinger, Leore Grosman
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Journal of Archaeological Science, 2007 The morphology of Acheulean handaxes continues to be a subject of debate amongst Lower Palaeolithic archaeologists, with some arguing that many handaxes are over-engineered for a subsistence function alone. This study aims to provide an empirical foundation for these debates by testing the relationship between a range of morphological variables ...
Machin, A, Hosfield, RT, Mithen, S
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