Dr. James Cole - Stone Tools & Cognition
AnthroBiology Podcast
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The Evolution of the Hominin Lineage
In Europe, flint is the preferred raw material type by far. Naps really easy to get a really sharp edge. Even when you have evidence of hominins and landscapes that don't have fine-grained material, they are still napping stone. So there's an ability to jump across raw materials to reproduce artifact form. For me, that really shows the adaptability of the hominin lineage.
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