Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition

Title
Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Davidson, Iain
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-9704
Email: idavidso@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:idavidso
Editor
Editor(s): April Nowell and Iain Davidson
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Place of publication
Boulder, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:7616
Abstract
In this chapter, I summarize some previously published work on the significance of the earliest stone tools in comparison with chimpanzee tool making and use. I then put that into the context of some theorizing about human cognition and its implications for understanding the evolution of hominin and human cognition. I then conclude with an extended discussion of the standard story of changes in stone-artifact making and use in the context of other recent theorizing about the evolution of language. I conclude that stone tools can be interpreted to give strong evidence about the evolution of cognition, but the outcomes depend on careful assessment of the theoretical basis for the argument.
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Citation
Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition, p. 185-205
ISBN
9781607320302
9781607320319
1607320304
Start page
185
End page
205

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