Raw material economy in Salento (Apulia, Italy): new perspectives on Neanderthal mobility patterns

Spinapolice, Enza Elena

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.033

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“…Methods enabling us to attribute raw materials to specific source locations can even enable researchers to draw inferences about the scale and direction of habitual movements, although the logical linkages are not always as simple as they initially appear to be. By combining information about lithic artifact manufacture, raw material movement, and faunal resource exploitation, researchers have been able to investigate the ways hominins responded to climatically linked changes in resource distributions by altering their strategies for positioning themselves on the landscape, providing new insights into the adaptive flexibility of Neanderthals, for example . On a more theoretical level, links between scales and patterns of mobility and cultural transmission have been proposed …”

Section: External Factorsmentioning

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What moves us? How mobility and movement are at the center of human evolution

Kuhn¹,

Raichlen²,

Clark³

2016

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Movement is central to the survival of all free-living organisms. Consequently, movement and what anthropologists often refer to as mobility, which is the sum of small-scale movements tracked across larger geographic and temporal scales, are key targets of selection. Movement and mobility also underpin many of the key features that make us human and that allowed our lineage to adapt to changing environments across the globe. The most obvious example is the evolution of humans' singular mode of locomotion. Bipedalism is arguably the most important derived anatomical trait of the hominin lineage. The mechanisms and circumstances that gave rise to this novel mode of movement remain subjects of intense research.

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Section: External Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What moves us? How mobility and movement are at the center of human evolution

Kuhn¹,

Raichlen²,

Clark³

2016

Evolutionary Anthropology

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“…This suggests either only occasional long‐distance movements, or largely unrepeated interactions with other groups (Feblot‐Augustins ). Though there are materials in southern Italy that have travelled from further north (Spinapolice ), such movements are the product of the unique situation of a dearth of available resources in the south. These examples indicate that Neanderthals had the ability to exploit more distant raw materials when necessary, but appear to have had little to no motivation to do so.…”

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The Cradle of Thought: Growth, Learning, Play and Attachment in Neanderthal Children

Spikins

Hitchens

Needham

et al. 2014

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary Childhood is a core stage in development, essential in the acquisition of social, practical and cultural skills. However, this area receives limited attention in archaeological debate, especially in early prehistory. We here consider Neanderthal childhood, exploring the experience of Neanderthal children using biological, cultural and social evidence. We conclude that Neanderthal childhood experience was subtly different from that of their modern human counterparts, orientated around a greater focus on social relationships within their group. Neanderthal children, as reflected in the burial record, may have played a particularly significant role in their society, especially in the domain of symbolic expression. A consideration of childhood informs broader debates surrounding the subtle differences between Neanderthals and modern humans.

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“…The Osvath and Karvonen [] finding is remarkable because the chimpanzee was not merely saving an item but also producing it, which means it had an idea of what to do. Moreover, this finding has potentially important implications for human evolution because paleoanthropologists have used the transportation of raw materials and manufacture of Acheulean tools as one of the first indications of planning behaviour [e.g., Bar‐Yosef, ; Harmand, ; Mellars, ; Spinapolice, ], something which has been dated between 2.5 and 1.6 million years ago. Particularly important with regards to future planning is the discovery of tool caches made of materials transported from distant sources [up to 10 km, Goren‐Inbar et al, ] since they may indicate multiple tools were prepared in advance of their use.…”

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Apes produce tools for future use

Bräuer

Call

2014

American J Primatol

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There is now growing evidence that some animal species are able to plan for the future. For example great apes save and exchange tools for future use. Here we raise the question whether chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos would produce tools for future use. Subjects only had access to a baited apparatus for a limited duration and therefore should use the time preceding this access to create the appropriate tools in order to get the rewards. The apes were tested in three conditions depending on the need for pre-prepared tools. Either eight tools, one tool or no tools were needed to retrieve the reward. The apes prepared tools in advance for future use and they produced them mainly in conditions when they were really needed. The fact that apes were able to solve this new task indicates that their planning skills are flexible. However, for the condition in which eight tools were needed, apes produced less than two tools per trial in advance. However, they used their chance to produce additional tools in the tool use phase-thus often obtaining most of the reward from the apparatus. Increased pressure to prepare more tools in advance did not have an effect on their performance.

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Raw material economy in Salento (Apulia, Italy): new perspectives on Neanderthal mobility patterns

Cited by 40 publications

References 18 publications

What moves us? How mobility and movement are at the center of human evolution

What moves us? How mobility and movement are at the center of human evolution

The Cradle of Thought: Growth, Learning, Play and Attachment in Neanderthal Children

Apes produce tools for future use

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