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

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

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 …

Recent studies have highlighted the important role that individual learning mechanisms and
different forms of enhancenment play in the acquisition of novel behaviors by naïve …

The earliest stone tool types, sharp flakes knapped from stone cores, are assumed to have
played a crucial role in human cognitive evolution. Flaked stone tools have been observed …

This chapter critically discusses the earliest tools and cultures of hominins—the species
most closely related to humans. It starts with an inferred organic tool age that would have …

Although once regarded as a unique human feature, tool-use is widespread in the animal
kingdom. Some of the most proficient tool-users are our closest living relatives …

We respond to the commentary by Tennie and Call (2023) on the article by Koops et
al.(2022) in Nature Human Behaviour titled 'Field experiments find no evidence that …

Humans can flexibly use metacognition to monitor their own knowledge and strategically
acquire new information when needed. While humans can deploy these skills across a …

Associative Tool Use (ATU) describes the use of two or more tools in combination, with the
literature further differentiating between Tool set use, Tool composite use, Sequential tool …