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 …

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

This paper explores the meaning of time perspectivism, its relationship to other theories of
time used in archaeological interpretation, and the ways in which it can be implemented …

Palaeolithic societies have been a neglected topic in the discussion of human origins. In this
book, which succeeds and replaces The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe, published by …

Steven A. Rosen's Lithics After the Stone Age is the first in-depth analysis of post-Stone-Age
tools. For Near Eastern archaeologists, he provides the first comprehensive typology and …

Genetic and anatomical evidence suggests that Homo sapiens arose in Africa between 200
and 100ka, and recent evidence suggests that complex cognition may have appeared …

Recent developments in the study of early man have turned away from analysing fossil
remains as evidence of a single and inevitable process of evolution towards homo sapiens …

The hypothesis that the principal varieties of Middle Paleolithic scrapers reflect varying
degrees of resharpening and rejuvenation, rather than discrete emic types, has generated …

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials.
Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) …

This book proposes a theory of human cognitive evolution, drawing from paleontology,
linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, and especially neuropsychology. The properties …