Despite its theoretical importance, the process of stone tool-making skill acquisition remains
understudied and poorly understood. The challenges and costs of skill learning constitute an …

Abstract Middle Pleistocene hominins occupied Europe as early as 700 ka. Data on
subsistence and adaptation to environment remain limited due to the small number of sites …

This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not
earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a …

The study of artifacts is fundamental to archaeological research. The features of individual
artifacts are recorded, analyzed, and compared within and between contextual …

How the boundaries of the mind should be drawn with respect to action and the material
world is a core research question that cognitive archaeology shares with contemporary …

Stone tools provide some of the best remaining evidence of behavioral change over long
periods, but their cognitive and evolutionary implications remain poorly understood. Here …

In the context of the Western European Acheulean Project, this study aims to characterize
Acheulean technology in Western Europe through the analysis of handaxes and cleavers …

The handaxes of north-western Europe are some of the most varied in the Acheulean world,
with the meanings of that variation debated since the late nineteenth century. To reassess …

The period between 600 and 400 ka is a critical phase for human evolution in Europe. The
south and northwest saw a dramatic increase in sites, the spread of handaxe technology …

Modern day investigation in fields of archaeology and palaeontology can be greatly
characterised by an exponential growth of integrated new technologies, nevertheless, while …