TY - CHAP
T1 - The Finished Artefact Fallacy
T2 - Acheulean Hand-axes and Language Origins
AU - Davidson, Iain
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Approaches to the study of the origins of language have three major sources of evidence: (1) from modern humans, including psychology and linguistics; (2)from modern non-human primates, including their communicative abilities; (3) from archaeology. This chapter is about the third of these - the archaeological evidence of what actually happened. Ten years ago, I outlined problems with the traditional framework of understanding stone tools (Davidson and Noble 1993; Gibson and Ingold 1993). In this chapter, i will return to issues I raised on that occasion and present more evidence and argument about Acheulean hand-axes.
AB - Approaches to the study of the origins of language have three major sources of evidence: (1) from modern humans, including psychology and linguistics; (2)from modern non-human primates, including their communicative abilities; (3) from archaeology. This chapter is about the third of these - the archaeological evidence of what actually happened. Ten years ago, I outlined problems with the traditional framework of understanding stone tools (Davidson and Noble 1993; Gibson and Ingold 1993). In this chapter, i will return to issues I raised on that occasion and present more evidence and argument about Acheulean hand-axes.
KW - Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
UR - http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/linguistics/9780199250660
UR - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GpsboOj0qOwC&printsec=frontcover#PPA180,M1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 0199250669
SN - 9780199250660
T3 - Studies in the Evolution of Language
SP - 180
EP - 203
BT - The Transition to Language
A2 - Wray, Alison
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Melbourne, Australia
ER -