Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in
animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network …

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there
has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition …

Early stone tool production, or knapping, techniques are claimed to be the earliest evidence
for cultural transmission in the human lineage. Previous experimental studies have trained …

The overall goal of this paper is to derive a set of generalizations that might characterize
children as tool makers/users in the earliest human societies. These generalizations will be …

In the 7 million years or so since humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees we
have colonized more of the planet's terrestrial habitat than any other mammalian species …

An apparently unique part of the Earlier Stone Age record of Africa are a series of bone tools
dated to between∼ 2 and∼ 1 Ma from the sites of Olduvai in East Africa, and Swartkrans …

In various respects anthropology has developed along paths leading into isolation. It no
longer should hesitate to stake clear claims for all of primatology, now that the comforting old …

Cognitive archaeology uses cognitive and psychological models to interpret the
archaeological record. This chapter outlines several components that may be essential in …

Selection and transport of materials for tools is ubiquitous throughout our species'
evolutionary history. Yet our understanding of early human material culture is heavily …

For years, the animal culture debate has been dominated by the puzzling absence of direct
evidence for social transmission of behavioral innovations in the flagship species of animal …