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Stone tools and conceptual structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

James Steele
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO9 5NH, England, tjms@southampton.ac.uk

Abstract

Understanding how conceptual structures inform stone tool production and use would help us resolve the issue of a pongid-hominid dichotomy in brain organisation and cognitive ability. Evidence from ideational apraxia suggests that the planning of linguistic and manipulative behaviours is not colocalized in homologous circuits. An alternative account in terms of the evolutionary expansion of the whole prefrontal-premotor area may be more plausible.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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