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The functional brain networks that underlie Early Stone Age tool manufacture (2017)
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Putt, S. S., Wijeakumar, S., Franciscus, R. G., & Spencer, J. P. (2017). The functional brain networks that underlie Early Stone Age tool manufacture. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(6), Article 0102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0102

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... Read More about The functional brain networks that underlie Early Stone Age tool manufacture.