The acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune?
| Autor: | Mark Collard, Adam Jagich, Raymond Corbey, K Krist Vaesen |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy & Ethics |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Alternative hypothesis handaxe phenotypic plasticity Article genetic transmission Birds Genetic transmission Animals Humans 0601 history and archaeology Conversation cultural evolution Sociocultural evolution Cultural transmission in animals History Ancient media_common 060101 anthropology Tool Use Behavior 060102 archaeology Fossils Acheulean handaxe Hominidae Articles 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Social learning Epistemology social learning social transmission Archaeology cultural transmission France Acheulean |
| Zdroj: | Evolutionary Anthropology Evolutionary Anthropology, 25(1), 6-19. Wiley-Liss Inc. |
| ISSN: | 1520-6505 1060-1538 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/evan.21467 |
| Popis: | The goal of this paper is to provoke debate about the nature of an iconic artifact—the Acheulean handaxe. Specifically, we want to initiate a conversationabout whether or not they are cultural objects. The vast majority of archeologistsassume that the behaviors involved in the production of handaxes wereacquired by social learning and that handaxes are therefore cultural. We willargue that this assumption is not warranted on the basis of the available evidenceand that an alternative hypothesis should be given serious consideration.This alternative hypothesis is that the form of Acheulean handaxes was at leastpartly under genetic control. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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