If you speak Danish, our work on the Blombos and Diepkloof engravings (100,000 years old) is the topic of the latest Brainstorm podcast produced by Videnskab dk! It was fun to be interviewed for this =] videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

100.000 år gamle streger på sten er stadig en gåde for forskerne

I årtier har arkæologer debatteret, hvad fortidsmennesket ville med ældgamle indridsninger. Kan hjerneforskere løse gåden? Det undersøger vi i denne uges Brainstorm-podcast.

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I prepared a blog post for the Human Behaviour & Evolution Society summarising the three studies examining the possible function of the Blombos and Diepkloof engravings led by Kristian Tylén, @fusaroli.eurosky.social , @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, and others. www.hbes.com/how-function...

How Function Shapes Form - HBES

– by Murillo Pagnotta Symbolic artefacts as tools of the mind In the study of human evolution, evidence of symbolic behaviour is often taken to indicate when the mind of our deep past relatives became...

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The engravings from the Blombos Cave and Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa are dated from ~100k years ago and are largely seen as intentional markings--but what functions did they serve? Our paper examining this is now out (and open-access)! Long thread for context. doi.org/10.1016/j.ev... 1/

Is 'culture' restricted to humans or do other animals also 'have culture'? One key ingredient explaining the emergence of 'culture' in the human lineage is our capacity for social learning--learning from/with others rather than on one's own. A short thread to introduce myself. 1/