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Stone Tools and the Evolution of Hominin and Human Cognition |
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Editor(s): April Nowell and Iain Davidson |
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University Press of Colorado |
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Boulder, United States of America |
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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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Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition, p. 185-205 |
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