The site of Schöningen (Germany), dated to ca. 300,000 years ago, yielded the earliest large-
scale record of humanly-made wooden tools. These include wooden spears and shorter …

Archaeological studies of early weaponry have relied for decades on ethnographic parallels—
whether from ethnohistorical accounts, ethnographic literature, or from objects studied in …

Aggression—and its role in human societal development—continues to be hotly debated
within both the sciences and the humanities. Whatever the evolutionary origins and …

The use of ethnographic and ethnohistoric data to inform reconstructions of past human
societies has a long tradition. While simple ethnographic analogies have been used since …

The earliest evidence for complex tool use in the archaeological record dates to 3.3 Ma.
While wooden tools may have been used by our earliest ancestors, the evidence is absent …

Women participate in hunting in some foraging societies but not in others. To examine the
socioecological factors that are conducive to women's hunting, we conducted an …

Few cultural practices beyond language are as widespread as string figure games. Their
global distribution and potential to yield insights into cultural transmission and cognition …