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Stone Tools: Evidence of Something in Between Culture and Cumulative Culture?

Iain Davidson

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    Abstract

    This paper goes back to some first principles about what culture might be and how it can be investigated in order to ask questions about the Last Common Ancestor and the role of stone tools in changing the nature of culture. In doing so it considers the relations between learned behavior, tradition, culture, cumulative culture, and cultures: I juxtapose models used by ROCEEH with an alternative model that shows how creatures which can be argued to have such behaviors, and thus the behaviors are related to each other through time and across the animal world.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Nature of Culture
    EditorsMiriam N Haidle, Nicholas J Conard, Michael Bolus
    Place of PublicationDordrecht, Netherlands
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages99-120
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)9789401774260, 9789401774246
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Publication series

    NameVertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
    PublisherSpringer Science + Business Media
    ISSN (Print)1877-9077
    ISSN (Electronic)1877-9085

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