Were Paleolithic Hand Axes Made For Seduction?
May 14, 2021
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as posted by the channelWere Palaeolithic hand axes made to attract partners and did genes play a role in their production? Two interesting hypotheses up for discussion.
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Primary Sources:
Kohn, Marek, and Steven Mithen. “Handaxes: Products of Sexual Selection?” Antiquity, vol. 73, no. 281, 1999, pp. 518–526., doi:10.1017/s0003598x00065078.
Corbey, Raymond, et al. “The Acheulean Handaxe: More like a Bird's Song than a Beatles' Tune?” Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, vol. 25, no. 1, 2016, pp. 6–19., doi:10.1002/evan.21467.
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Beyene, Y., et al. “The Characteristics and Chronology of the Earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 110, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1584–1591., doi:10.1073/pnas.1221285110.
Deino, Alan L., and Sally McBrearty. “40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya.” Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 42, no. 1-2, 2002, pp. 185–210., doi:10.1006/jhev.2001.0517.
Yravedra, José, et al. “Mammal Butchery by Homo Erectus at the Lower Pleistocene Acheulean Site of Juma’s Korongo 2 (JK2), Bed III, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.” Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 249, 2020, p. 106612., doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106612.
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