Movement pattern variability in stone knapping: implications for the development of percussive traditions.

The earliest direct evidence for tool-use by our ancestors are 2.6 million year old stone tools from Africa. These earliest artifacts show that, already, early hominins had developed the required advanced movement skills and cognitive capacities to manufacture stone tools. Currently, it is not well...

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Main Authors: Robert Rein, Tetsushi Nonaka, Blandine Bril
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4245206?pdf=render