The dominant view of cumulative technological culture suggests that high-fidelity
transmission rests upon a high-fidelity copying ability, which allows individuals to reproduce …

Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

The cultural reproduction of lithic technology, long an implicit assumption of archaeological
theories, has garnered increasing attention over the past decades. Major debates ranging …

Stone tools are a manifestation of the complex cognitive and dexterous skills of our hominin
ancestors. As such, much research has been devoted to understanding the skill …

We implement a method from computer sciences to address a challenge in Paleolithic
archaeology: how to infer cognition differences from material culture. Archaeological …

This paper begins with an analysis of Tennie's account of hominin culture: the claims that
cumulative culture depends on a distinctive form of social learning; that that form of social …

Stone tools provide key evidence of human cognitive evolution but remain challenging to
interpret. Stone tool skill-learning has been understudied even though (1) the most salient …

Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human
becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the norm. The emphasis is on when …

Lower Paleolithic bifaces are one of the most ubiquitous and persistent stone tools in
prehistory, proliferating from Africa through Eurasia from as early as 1.75 Mya and remaining …

Objectives As is the case among many complex motor tasks that require prolonged practice
before achieving expertise, aspects of the biomechanics of knapping vary according to the …