After 800,000 years of making simple Oldowan tools, early humans began manufacturing Acheulian handaxes around 1.75 million years ago. This advance is hypothesized to reflect an evolutionary change in hominin cognition and language abilities. We used a neuroarchaeology approach to investigate this hypothesis, recording brain activity using functional near-infrared spectroscopy as modern human participants learned to make Oldowan and Acheulian stone tools in either a verbal or nonverbal training context. Here we show that Acheulian tool production requires the integration of visual, auditory and sensorimotor information in the middle and superior temporal cortex, the guidance of visual working memory representations in the ventral precentral...
International audienceStone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution...
The appearance of the first intentionally modified stone tools over 2.5 million years ago marked a w...
Recently, considerable interest for language evolution has arisen. Many researchers believe that lan...
After 800,000 years of making simple Oldowan tools, early humans began manufacturing Acheulian handa...
After 800,000 years of making simple Oldowan tools, early humans began manufacturing Acheulian handa...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ?1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Paleolithic stone tools provide concrete evidence of major developments in human behavioural and cog...
Paleolithic stone tools provide concrete evidence of major developments in human behavioural and cog...
Stone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution evidence of behaviora...
Stone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution evidence of behaviora...
International audienceStone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution...
International audienceStone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution...
The appearance of the first intentionally modified stone tools over 2.5 million years ago marked a w...
Recently, considerable interest for language evolution has arisen. Many researchers believe that lan...
After 800,000 years of making simple Oldowan tools, early humans began manufacturing Acheulian handa...
After 800,000 years of making simple Oldowan tools, early humans began manufacturing Acheulian handa...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ?1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Trends toward encephalization and technological complexity ∼1.8 million years ago may signify cognit...
Paleolithic stone tools provide concrete evidence of major developments in human behavioural and cog...
Paleolithic stone tools provide concrete evidence of major developments in human behavioural and cog...
Stone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution evidence of behaviora...
Stone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution evidence of behaviora...
International audienceStone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution...
International audienceStone tools provide some of the most abundant, continuous, and high resolution...
The appearance of the first intentionally modified stone tools over 2.5 million years ago marked a w...
Recently, considerable interest for language evolution has arisen. Many researchers believe that lan...