Stout, D. and Chaminade, T. (2009) Making tools and making sense: complex, intentional behaviour in human evolution. Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 19 (1) pp. 85-96. 10.1017/S0959774309000055.
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Abstract
Stone tool-making is an ancient and prototypically human skill characterized by multiple levels of intentional organization. In a formal sense, it displays surprising similarities to the multi-level organization of human language. Recent functional brain imaging studies of stone tool-making similarly demonstrate overlap with neural circuits involved in language processing. These observations consistent with the hypothesis that language and tool-making share key requirements for the construction of hierarchically structured action sequences and evolved together in a mutually reinforcing way.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Making tools and making sense: complex, intentional behaviour in human evolution |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0959774309000055 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959774309000055 |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience |
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