Acheulean cognition

This project examines Acheulean bifaces in order to assess the evolution of cognition over the course of the 1.5 million year duration of this culture.

Related outputs

• Garcia Medrano, P., Shipton, C., White, M., Ashton, N. Acheulian diversity in Britain (MIS15-13) from the standardization to the regionalization of technology.  Frontiers in Earth Sciences
• Muller, A., Shipton, C., Clarkson, C. (2022) Stone toolmaking difficulty and the evolution of hominin technological skills. Scientific Reports 12: 5883
• Shipton, C. Predetermined refinement: the earliest Levallois of the Kapthurin Formation. (2022) Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 5: 4 (2022)
• Shipton, C., White M. (2020) Handaxe types, colonization waves, and social norms in the British Acheulean.  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 31: 102352
• Shipton, C., Clarkson, C., Cobden, R. (2019) Were Acheulean bifaces deliberately made symmetrical? Archaeological and experimental evidence.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29: 65-79
• Shipton, C.  Biface knapping skill in the East African Acheulean: progressive trends and random walks. (2018) African Archaeological Review 35: 107-131
• Muller, A., Clarkson, C., Shipton, C. (2017) Measuring behavioural and cognitive complexity in lithic technology throughout human evolution.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 48: 166-180
• Shipton, C., Nielsen, M., Di Vincenzo, F. (2021) The Acheulean origins of normativity.  In Killin, A. and Hermansson, S. (eds.) Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy, pp.197-212. Berlin: Synthese.
• Shipton, C. (2020) The unity of Acheulean culture.  In Groucutt, H. (ed.) Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory?  pp. 13-27.  London: Springer
• Shipton, C. (2019) Three stages in the evolution of human cognition: normativity, recursion, and abstraction.  In Henley, T., Rossano, M., and Kardas, E. (eds.) Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology: Psychology in Prehistory pp. 153-173.  London: Routledge
• Shipton, C. (2019) The evolution of social transmission in the Acheulean.  In Coolidge, F. & Overmann, K. (eds.) Squeezing Minds from Stones pp. 332-354.  Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Shipton, C., Nielsen, M. (2018) The acquisition of knapping skill in the Acheulean.  In Di Vincenzo, F. & Di Paolo, L.D. (eds.) The Evolution of Primate Social Cognition pp. 283-297.  Dordrecht: Springer