This paper focuses on the empirical evidence for the cognitive abilities of early hominins of
the Oldowan Industrial Complex (c.≥ 2.6 to 1.4 Mya) on the African continent. It profiles …

It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin
(henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour …

The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …

According to current evidence, Homo sapiens was unable to survive on a diet of raw wild
foods. Because cooked diets have large physiological and behavioral consequences, a …

The habitual consumption of large-animal resources (eg, similar sized or larger than the
consumer) separates human and nonhuman primate behavior. Flaked stone tool use …

Bone surface modifications are foundational to the correct identification of hominin butchery
traces in the archaeological record. Until present, no analytical technique existed that could …

How and when did hominins move from the numerical cognition that we share with the rest
of the animal world to number symbols? Objects with sequential markings have been used …

Early stone tools, and in particular sharp stone tools, arguably represent one of the most
important technological milestones in human evolution. The production and use of sharp …

It is often, though sometimes only implicitly, assumed that biological/genetic evolution sets
neural substrates, that neural substrates fix cognitive abilities, and that cognitive abilities …