ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
3.3 million years of stone tool complexity suggests that cumulative culture began during the Middle Pleistocene.
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- Cultural evolution accelerated human range expansion by more than two orders of magnitude.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The earliest elephant-bone tool from Europe: An unexpected raw material for precision knapping of Acheulean handaxes.Science advances · 2026Article
- What the eastern African stone tool evidence tells us about Plio-Pleistocene hominin extinctions.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2026Article
- roadDB: An R package for exploring early human prehistory and environments with the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database.PloS one · 2026Article
- Atypical tool and object use in wild immature chimpanzees reveals developmental pathways to innovation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Technological complexity and combinatorial invention in small-scale societies.Science advances · 2025Article
- Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Costs of Early Stone Toolmaking cannot Establish the Presence of Know-how Copying.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Climate seasonality and predictability during the middle stone age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel.PloS one · 2025Article
- An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cumulative culture, the accumulation of modifications, innovations, and improvements over generations through social learning, is a key determinant of the behavioral diversity across
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