This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Recent work on birds and non-human primates has shown that taxonomic differences in
field measures of innovation, tool use and social learning are associated with size of the …

The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~ 400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by
technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout …

The atlatl is a handheld, rod-shaped device that employs leverage to launch a dart, and
represents a major human technological innovation. One hypothesis for forager atlatl …

Despite its theoretical importance, the process of stone tool-making skill acquisition remains
understudied and poorly understood. The challenges and costs of skill learning constitute an …

The Acheulean industrial complex combines technological variability with continuity on a
scale unparalleled by more recent industries. Acheulean variability includes a widely …

Identifying the determinants of cumulative cultural evolution is a key issue in the
interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution. A widely held view is that large and well …

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and
cumulative change in human technologyÑprominent research themes in both archaeology …

Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years
to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …