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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Behaviour and process in the formation of the North European Acheulean record: Towards a Unified Palaeolithic Landscape Approach [PDF]
, 2016 The Acheulean record of northern France and southern Britain has long been acknowledged as internationally important, having played an important historical role in the development of the discipline.
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Experiment of bukit bunuh handaxes manufacturing technology [PDF]
, 2015 The Bukit Bunuh site is one of the Palaeolithic site in Lenggong Valley in the meteorite impact area, which is located 10km from Lenggong town, in the hulu Perak district.
Abdullah, Jeffrey, Bakry, Noridayu
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Early hominins in north-west Europe: a punctuated long chronology? [PDF]
, 2018 In light of changing views regarding the identity and evolutionary positions of Europe’s Lower Palaeolithic hominins, a re-consideration of the hominin occupation of North-West Europe from c. 1 million years ago (mya) to c.
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The Evolution of Endurance Running and the Tyranny of Ethnography: A Reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) [PDF]
, 2010 Endurance running (ER) poses a conundrum for paleoanthropologists. As summarized in Bramble and Lieberman (2004), human ER capabilities, which are unique among primates, either match or exceed those of mammals adapted for running (cursors), including ...
Bramble, Dennis M. +3 more
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Visions of Substance: 3D Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology [PDF]
, 2017 With the advent of low-cost and easy to use 3D imaging tools, the discipline of archaeology is on the cusp of a major change in how we document, study, and publish archaeological contexts.
Brandon Olson, William Caraher
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, 2013 This paper discusses a number of basic strategies for modeling the mind in historical perspective. The best-known strategies are expansionism and eliminativism, which are both problematic: eliminativism compromises our self-understanding, while ...
Jan Sleutels
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The handaxe and the microscope: individual and social learning in a multidimensional model of adaptation [PDF]
, 2013 When individuals learn by trial-and-error, they perform randomly chosen actions and then reinforce those actions that led to a high payoff. However, individuals do not always have to physically perform an action in order to evaluate its consequences ...
Lehmann, L., Wakano, J.Y.
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The ‘Palaeolithic Prospection in the Inde Valley’ Project [PDF]
, 2011 Im Rahmen des Projektes „Prospektion Paläolithikum im Indetal“ der Stiftung Archäologie im Rheinischen Braunkohlenrevier wurden in den Jahren 2005 und 2006 im Tagebau Inden zwischen Jülich-Kirchberg und Lamersdorf die pleistozänen Deckschichten mittels ...
Alfred F. Pawlik, Jürgen Thissen
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Rethinking Phylogeny and Ontogeny in Hominin Brain Evolution [PDF]
, 2012 Theories of hominin and human cognitive evolution have traditionally focused on the phylogeny of the human brain, and on comparisons of human and primate brains in relation to social or ecological variables.
Coward, Fiona
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