Early Stone Tools and Cultural Transmission: Resetting the Null Hypothesis

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@MarcKissel A "reset", you say? Couldnt agree more. https://t.co/O7Hr6Jlx9u

What would a "minimal culture" of early stone tools be like? In short, it would be like ape culture today. Taking this view, many problematic data patterns in the archaeological record fall into place. We wrote about this first in 2016 & again in…

Why is form copying important, and why is it important to determine whether apes use it? A) human culture heavily relies on it (--> leads to *cumulative know-how*) & B) if apes do not copy forms, it would have had to evolve on our lineage. See…

@uominin We go into the reasons for why one must conclude that hominins lacked know how copying for the longest time here: https://t.co/HmJK5XME58

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