Grahame Clark's framework for describing stone tool assemblages in terms of five
technological “modes” enjoys wide use in European, African, and Asian prehistory. With …

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 …

Current models of early hominin biological and cultural evolution are shaped almost entirely
by the data accumulated from the East African Rift System (EARS) over the last decades. In …

The importance of the transport of stone artefacts in structuring Neandertal lithic
assemblages has often been addressed, but the degree to which this led to fragmentation of …

While lithic objects can potentially inform us about past adaptations and behaviors, it is
important to develop a comprehensive understanding of all of the various processes that …

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 …

Important recent developments in brain and cognitive sciences offer new avenues for
productive cooperation between archaeology and neuroscience. Archaeologists can now …

Abstract The Later Middle Paleolithic lithic archaeological record for the East Mediterranean
Levant has been invoked to support competing and contradictory models for the …

Lithic researchers rely heavily on experimentation to infer past behaviors and activities
based on stone artifacts. This paper explores the analogical nature of archaeological …

The present paper is an endeavor to summarize the evidence for various dispersals of
hominins into Eurasia, while avoiding the commonly held assumptions that these events …