Recent studies in several taxa have demonstrated that animal culture can evolve to become
more efficient in various contexts ranging from tool use to route learning and migration …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

One of the greatest difficulties with evolutionary approaches in the study of stone tools
(lithics) has been finding a mechanism for tying culture and biology in a way that preserves …

What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The
classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are …

We have learned much about tool use in nonhumans since the discovery of Oldowan stone
tools. Despite the ongoing debate over whether tool use in other animals requires cultural …

Teaching is present in all human societies, while within other species it is very limited.
Something happened during the evolution of Homo sapiens that also made us Homo …

The destructive distillation of birch bark to produce tar has recently featured in debates about
the technological and cognitive abilities of Neandertals and modern humans. The abilities to …

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 …

Archaeological assemblages labeled as Initial Upper Paleolithic are often seen as possible
evidence for dispersals of Homo sapiens populations in Eurasia, ca. 45,000 years ago …

Stone tool making, observed archaeologically from 3.3 million years ago, involves complex
problem solving and forethought, but the relative complexity of different Palaeolithic …