Archaeology can provide two bodies of information relevant to the understanding of the
evolution of human cognition–the timing of developments, and the evolutionary context of …

The Acheulean handaxe is one of the longest‐known and longest‐surviving artifacts of the
Palaeolithic and, despite its experimentally tested functionality, is often regarded as …

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 …

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million
years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that …

The Acheulean, sometimes known as 'the great handaxe tradition', is the longest-lasting
entity in the human cultural record. The oldest sites are in Africa at around 1.6 million years …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

Handaxes are often used to discuss the evolution of mental capabilities in early hominids.
There are several reasons handaxes are used for this purpose, but principal among these is …

Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists recover from their excavations,
and predictably, they struggle to understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4 million …

Acheulian bifaces are multivariate objects, in which a set of variables were controlled by the
manufacturers and users, constrained by basic needs and necessities. In any set of …

This paper examines shape and size variability in Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA)
handaxes and compares the observed patterns to those in the Lower Paleolithic Acheulian …