The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic

By C. Gamble, J. Gowlett, Robin I. M. Dunbar. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2011

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Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites (2013, background): “The hypothesis consequently espouses a relationship between demography and behaviour, for example, dispersed communities whose members keep only infrequent contact may present considerable cognitive demands because the needs of absent members must be constantly borne in mind (Gamble et al. 2011).”
Following Pleistocene road signs of human dispersals across Eurasia (2013, background): “The search for the imprint of the interaction between emotional and cultural characteristics is shared with researchers who view the evolution of the social brain as the driving force for both encephalization as well as the observed cultural changes during the Pleistocene (Gamble et al., 2011).”
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Ethnography, and the Human Niche (2016, methodology): “Drawing on evolutionary approaches in Rodseth et al. (1991), Gamble, Gowlett, and Dunbar (2011), and Smaldino (2014; see also Deane-Drummond and Fuentes 2014; Fuentes 2014, 2015), I define “community” for the purposes proposed here as the spatial and social context that includes the majority of…”
Earliest fire in Africa: towards the convergence of archaeological evidence and the cooking hypothesis (2013, background): “We must ask whether archaeology can address such problems (Gamble et al. 2011).”