Archeologists have long assumed that earlier hominins were obligatory stone tool users.
This assumption is deeply embedded in traditional ways of describing the lithic record. This …

This review summarizes current thinking about the concept of modern behavior in the
context of Neandertals and anatomically modern humans. The decoupling of modern …

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 …

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is
concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic …

" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

The remarkable story of a" talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they
have uncovered about our species He has been featured in cover stories in Time …

Archaeology's main contribution to the debate over the origins of modern humans has been
investigating where and when modern human behavior is first recognized in the …

How language evolved has been called" the hardest problem in science." In Adam's
Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why …

Transductions explores the nature of technological speed and how technology becomes
part of living bodies. Drawing on deconstruction and corporeal theory, Transductions re …

FOR THE PAST 200 YEARS, virtually all attempts to account for the neural bases and the
evolution of human language have focused on the neocortex. And in the past 40 years …