M Kissel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 34113 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Kissel |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Kissel |
| FIRMA | KISSEL M |
| AFILIACIONES | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4004-1996 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The origins and development of mobile containers
The first comprehensive assessment of the evidence for Pleistocene mobile containers. • Presents a new database of Pleistocene containment technology. • Identifies a ‘container transition’ in human evolution from a primate-to-hominin engagement with containment technology. • Proposes a biocultural perspective viewing container use and manufacture as a process of niche construction. Containers are ubiquitous and universal across all present-day so…
The edge is already there
Natural edges may have served as precursors to manufactured sharp edges. • Free-hand percussion required incremental technical advancements to emerge. • Early stone tool making may have required instruction or guidance. The origins of stone tool technology remain a subject of ongoing debate. To investigate the early stages of this technological evolution, we conducted an experiment examining how naïve contemporary humans approached the task of cu…
Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution
Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene
Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple interments and funerary actions, as well as evidence of the early creation of meaning making by a hominin. The hominin undertaking these behaviors was the small-brained Homo naledi. These data call into question several key assumptions about behavioral and cognitive evolut…
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
Recent excavations in the Rising Star Cave System of South Africa have revealed burials of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi. A combination of geological and anatomical evidence shows that hominins dug holes that disrupted the subsurface stratigraphy and interred the remains of H. naledi individuals, resulting in at least two discrete features within the Dinaledi Chamber and the Hill Antechamber. These are the most ancient interments yet re…
Integrative approaches to dispersing science
OBJECTIVES: Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, navigating the mosaic landscape of public education and science communication, noted for rapid "ecological" succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are characterized by diverse skills, motivations, values, positionalities, and temperaments that may differentially incline individuals to particul…
Let's talk teaching
OBJECTIVES: In this article, we discuss research from the science of teaching and learning and from progressive pedagogy, with the aim of discussing how these fields can help us all become better teachers. METHODS: Our methods were based on assessment of the literature and our in-class practices. RESULTS: We find that the practices of critical progressive pedagogy are rooted in good research practices and are based both on new research and on fun…
The ripples of modernity
Contemporary understandings of paleoanthropological data illustrate that the search for a line defining, or a specific point designating, “modern human” is problematic. Here we lend support to the argument for the need to look for patterns in the paleoanthropological record that indicate how multiple evolutionary processes intersected to form the human niche, a concept critical to assessing the development and processes involved in the emergence …
Becoming wise
In order to understand how the human cultural niche evolved across the Pleistocene, to interrogate how wisdom evolved, we need a better understanding of the actual archaeological data that inform this question. To properly contextualize the data, address these conflicts, and begin to more effectively and systematically answer questions about the emergence of modern human behaviour we created an open-access database resource, the Worldwide Instanc…
The emergence of human warfare
The origins of warfare have long been of interest for researchers across disciplines. Did our earliest ancestors engage in forms of organized violence that are appropriately viewed as approximations, forms of, or analogs for more recent forms of warfare? Assessed in this article are contrasting views that see warfare as being either a product of more recent human societies or a phenomenon with a much deeper chronology. The article provides an ove…
‘Behavioral modernity’ as a process, not an event, in the human niche
The search for ‘firsts’ is a common trope in the study of human evolution. Both popular books and scientific articles attempt to discern the key moments in evolutionary history that indicate the true appearance of our species (or subspecies, depending on one’s classificatory scheme). While scientists are cognizant of the problematic nature of this work, we often use a specific set of dates and material markers as tipping points for the origins an…
Non-Modern Humans Were More Complex-and Artistic-Than We Thought
Symbolic Culture
Semiosis in the Pleistocene
A distinctive aspect of human behaviour is the ability to think symbolically. However, tracking the origin of this capability is controversial. From a Peircean perspective, to know if something truly is a symbol we need to know the cultural context in which it was created. Rather than initially asking if materials are symbols/symbolic, we offer that it is more salient to ask how they functioned as signs. Specifically we argue that using the Peirc…
A database of archeological evidence of representational behavior
From Hominid to Human
From Hominid to Human The Role of Human Wisdom and Distinctiveness in the Evolution of Modern Humans
Redefining Biological Anthropology
The emergence of human warfare
The origins of warfare have long been of interest for researchers across disciplines. Did our earliest ancestors engage in forms of organized violence that are appropriately viewed as approximations, forms of, or analogs for more recent forms of warfare? Assessed in this article are contrasting views that see warfare as being either a product of more recent human societies or a phenomenon with a much deeper chronology. The article provides an ove…
Semiosis in the Pleistocene
A distinctive aspect of human behaviour is the ability to think symbolically. However, tracking the origin of this capability is controversial. From a Peircean perspective, to know if something truly is a symbol we need to know the cultural context in which it was created. Rather than initially asking if materials are symbols/symbolic, we offer that it is more salient to ask how they functioned as signs. Specifically we argue that using the Peirc…
A database of archeological evidence of representational behavior
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
Recent excavations in the Rising Star Cave System of South Africa have revealed burials of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi. A combination of geological and anatomical evidence shows that hominins dug holes that disrupted the subsurface stratigraphy and interred the remains of H. naledi individuals, resulting in at least two discrete features within the Dinaledi Chamber and the Hill Antechamber. These are the most ancient interments yet re…
From Hominid to Human
From Hominid to Human The Role of Human Wisdom and Distinctiveness in the Evolution of Modern Humans
Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene
Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple interments and funerary actions, as well as evidence of the early creation of meaning making by a hominin. The hominin undertaking these behaviors was the small-brained Homo naledi. These data call into question several key assumptions about behavioral and cognitive evolut…
Non-Modern Humans Were More Complex-and Artistic-Than We Thought
From Hominid to Human
From Hominid to Human The Role of Human Wisdom and Distinctiveness in the Evolution of Modern Humans
Redefining Biological Anthropology
Symbolic Culture
Semiosis in the Pleistocene
A distinctive aspect of human behaviour is the ability to think symbolically. However, tracking the origin of this capability is controversial. From a Peircean perspective, to know if something truly is a symbol we need to know the cultural context in which it was created. Rather than initially asking if materials are symbols/symbolic, we offer that it is more salient to ask how they functioned as signs. Specifically we argue that using the Peirc…
A database of archeological evidence of representational behavior
‘Behavioral modernity’ as a process, not an event, in the human niche
The search for ‘firsts’ is a common trope in the study of human evolution. Both popular books and scientific articles attempt to discern the key moments in evolutionary history that indicate the true appearance of our species (or subspecies, depending on one’s classificatory scheme). While scientists are cognizant of the problematic nature of this work, we often use a specific set of dates and material markers as tipping points for the origins an…
Non-Modern Humans Were More Complex-and Artistic-Than We Thought
The emergence of human warfare
The origins of warfare have long been of interest for researchers across disciplines. Did our earliest ancestors engage in forms of organized violence that are appropriately viewed as approximations, forms of, or analogs for more recent forms of warfare? Assessed in this article are contrasting views that see warfare as being either a product of more recent human societies or a phenomenon with a much deeper chronology. The article provides an ove…
Becoming wise
In order to understand how the human cultural niche evolved across the Pleistocene, to interrogate how wisdom evolved, we need a better understanding of the actual archaeological data that inform this question. To properly contextualize the data, address these conflicts, and begin to more effectively and systematically answer questions about the emergence of modern human behaviour we created an open-access database resource, the Worldwide Instanc…
The ripples of modernity
Contemporary understandings of paleoanthropological data illustrate that the search for a line defining, or a specific point designating, “modern human” is problematic. Here we lend support to the argument for the need to look for patterns in the paleoanthropological record that indicate how multiple evolutionary processes intersected to form the human niche, a concept critical to assessing the development and processes involved in the emergence …
Integrative approaches to dispersing science
OBJECTIVES: Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, navigating the mosaic landscape of public education and science communication, noted for rapid "ecological" succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are characterized by diverse skills, motivations, values, positionalities, and temperaments that may differentially incline individuals to particul…
Let's talk teaching
OBJECTIVES: In this article, we discuss research from the science of teaching and learning and from progressive pedagogy, with the aim of discussing how these fields can help us all become better teachers. METHODS: Our methods were based on assessment of the literature and our in-class practices. RESULTS: We find that the practices of critical progressive pedagogy are rooted in good research practices and are based both on new research and on fun…
Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene
Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple interments and funerary actions, as well as evidence of the early creation of meaning making by a hominin. The hominin undertaking these behaviors was the small-brained Homo naledi. These data call into question several key assumptions about behavioral and cognitive evolut…
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
Recent excavations in the Rising Star Cave System of South Africa have revealed burials of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi. A combination of geological and anatomical evidence shows that hominins dug holes that disrupted the subsurface stratigraphy and interred the remains of H. naledi individuals, resulting in at least two discrete features within the Dinaledi Chamber and the Hill Antechamber. These are the most ancient interments yet re…
Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution
The origins and development of mobile containers
The first comprehensive assessment of the evidence for Pleistocene mobile containers. • Presents a new database of Pleistocene containment technology. • Identifies a ‘container transition’ in human evolution from a primate-to-hominin engagement with containment technology. • Proposes a biocultural perspective viewing container use and manufacture as a process of niche construction. Containers are ubiquitous and universal across all present-day so…
The edge is already there
Natural edges may have served as precursors to manufactured sharp edges. • Free-hand percussion required incremental technical advancements to emerge. • Early stone tool making may have required instruction or guidance. The origins of stone tool technology remain a subject of ongoing debate. To investigate the early stages of this technological evolution, we conducted an experiment examining how naïve contemporary humans approached the task of cu…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 obras)