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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, 2020 Knowing to what extent lithic cores have been reduced through knapping is an important step toward understanding the technological variability of lithic assemblages and disentangling the formation processes of archaeological assemblages.
Cueva-Temprana, A. +4 more
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The origin of the Acheulean: the 1.7 million-year-old site of FLK West, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) [PDF]
, 2015 The appearance of the Acheulean is one of the hallmarks of human evolution. It represents the emergence of a complex behavior, expressed in the recurrent manufacture of large-sized tools, with standardized forms, implying more advance forethought and ...
Baquedano, E. +13 more
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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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Mapping the human record in the British early Palaeolithic: evidence from the Solent River system [PDF]
, 2010 The lithic record from the Solent River and its tributaries is re-examined in the light of recent interpretations about the changing demography of Britain during the Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic.
Ashton, Nick, Hosfield, Rob
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The origin of the Acheulean. Techno-functional study of the FLK W lithic record (Olduvai, Tanzania).
PLoS ONE, 2017 The Acheulean materials documented in FLK West dated c. 1.7 Ma. are the focus of the present work. An original techno-functional approach is applied here to analyze the origin of Acheulean tools.
Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos +8 more
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Étude expérimentale des macrotraces d’utilisation sur les tranchants des bifaces
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2009 We describe an experimental program involving flint handaxes and edge damage resulting from their use. The usewear traces are compared with those commonly observed on unretouched flakes. Since the experimental traces show the same characteristics for the
Émilie Claud +3 more
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Making tools and making sense: complex, intentional behaviour in human evolution [PDF]
, 2009 Stone tool-making is an ancient and prototypically human skill characterized by multiple levels of intentional organization. In a formal sense, it displays surprising similarities to the multi-level organization of human language. Recent functional brain
Chaminade, T., Stout, D.
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Differences in Manufacturing Traditions and Assemblage-Level Patterns: the Origins of Cultural Differences in Archaeological Data [PDF]
, 2016 AcceptedArticle in PressThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this record.© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York A relationship between behavioral variability and artifactual ...
Lycett, SJ, Mesoudi, A, Schillinger, K
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A note on handaxe knapping products and their breakage taphonomy: an experimental view
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015 The notion that broken artifacts provide a good indication of the taphonomic history of lithic assemblages is commonly accepted in prehistoric archaeology.
Gadi Herzlinger +2 more
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