Long-standing speculations and more recent hypotheses propose a variety of possible
evolutionary connections between language, gesture and tool use. These arguments have …

Researchers who analyze stone tools and their production debris have made significant
progress in understanding the relationship between stone tools and human organizational …

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the
human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in …

Humans, more than any other species, have been altering their paths of development by
creating new material forms and by opening up to new possibilities of material engagement …

Although many species display behavioural traditions, human culture is unique in the
complexity of its technological, symbolic and social contents. Is this extraordinary complexity …

This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a
new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the …

Culture pervades human lives and has allowed our species to create niches all around the
world and its oceans, in ways quite unlike any other primate. Indeed, our cultural nature …

Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical
activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen …

Handedness and cerebral asymmetry are commonly assumed to be uniquely human, and
even defining characteristics of our species. This is increasingly refuted by the evidence of …

Paleolithic stone tools provide concrete evidence of major developments in human
behavioural and cognitive evolution. Of particular interest are evolving cognitive …