Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution

By Stanley H. Ambrose. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Social Psychology

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Numerosity, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Symbolic Thinking (2012, background): “Using this record, we speculated that this parietal area was perhaps present in Homo erectus, to whom the Acheulian in- dustrial complex has been attributed (Ambrose 2001).”
Coevolution of Composite‐Tool Technology, Constructive Memory, and Language (2010, background): “Conversely, the MP and the MSA are characterized by additive multicomponent composite-tool technologies (Ambrose 2001).”
Working Memory, its Executive Functions, and the Emergence of Modern Thinking (2005, background): “Ambrose (2001) hypothesized that the beginnings of composite tool-making, about 300,000 years ago, reflected an increase in cognitive capacity.”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “3, highlighting that control of fire, meat-eating, rudimentary cooking, and the manufacture of stone tools were already established cultural traits of multiple hominin species long before the emergence of our species (Ambrose 2001, Antón et al. 2014).”
The neural bases of complex tool use in humans. (2004, background): “A fundamental question in human evolution concerns the relationship between phylogenetic changes in the brain and the development of hominid tool manufacture and use [ 3 ].”
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age. (2005, background): “…(Yellen et al., 1995; McBrearty & Brooks, 2000; Henshilwood et al., 2001a,b, 2002) have been rejected as clear-cut evidence for behavioural modernity on the grounds of context, dating and/or because deliberate symbolic intent could not be warranted (Wadley, 2001, 2003; Klein, 2000; Ambrose, 2001).”
API-Bank: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Tool-Augmented LLMs (2023, background): “Traditionally, tool usage has been viewed as a uniquely human behavior, with its emergence considered a significant mile-stone in primate evolution (Ambrose, 2001).”
Morphological Differences in the Parietal Lobes within the Human Genus (2010, background): “…sure, the capability to organize the external reality within a personal framework through “virtual” handling of its parts is a requisite needed to dissect a final target into subgoals (Beaman 2010) or to evolve a conjunctive/additive technology from a reductive/subtractive approach (Ambrose 2001).”