Baldwin effects in early stone tools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18928869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Corbey (0000-0001-9787-0480, Faculty of Archaeology Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 237-244 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1538 • E-ISSN: 1520-6505 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/evan.21864 |
| PMID | 32835429 |
| OpenAlex | W3080268252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 47 |
A sizeable dataset comprising millions of lithic artifacts sampling over two million years of early paleolithic tool technology from Africa and Eurasia is now available. The widespread presupposition of an exclusively cultural, that is, socially learned, nature of early stone tools from at least Acheulean times onwards has been challenged by researchers who hypothesize that these tools, a crucial element of early hominin survival strategies, may partly have been under genetic control, next to the effects of various other determinants. The discussion this hypothesis has sparked off in the present journal is here explored somewhat further, focusing on the Baldwin effect
Acheulean · Archaeology · Biological evolution · Biology · Evolutionary biology · Geography · Hominidae · Lithic technology · Paleoanthropology · Pleistocene · Stone tool · History · Language and cultural evolution · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology
The origins of the Acheulean
A New Factor in Evolution
How culture shaped the human genome
Evolution of early Homo
The Symbolic Species
The acheulean handaxe
Not By Genes Alone
The handaxe reconsidered
Further Thoughts on the Genetic Argument for Handaxes
Less of a bird's song than a hard rock ensemble
On stony ground
Boxgrove, West Sussex
Journeys in space and time. Assessing the link between Acheulean handaxes and genetic explanations
Patterns of technological change at the origin of Homo sapiens
Acheulean handaxes from Fengshudao, Bose sites of South China
Investigating interrelationships between Lower Palaeolithic stone tool effectiveness and tool user biometric variation
The archaeology of Sterkfontein-past and present
The handaxe reloaded
Handaxes
Archaeology and the Origins of Human Cumulative Culture
Early Stone Tools and Cultural Transmission
Acheulian Giant-Core Technology
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |