An interdisciplinary workshop to be held over two days at the UOW Wollongong Campus and online via Zoom.
Stone tools, cultural evolution, and the emergence of language
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UOW Wollongong - 41.203 In person and also streamed via Zoom
What is the state of our knowledge regarding the evolutionary interrelationships between stone tool manufacture and use, cultural evolution, and the emergence of distinctively human forms of communication, including but not limited to language?
Program
Monday, 21 October, 2024
- 9.00-9.15 - Ronald Planer - Housekeeping
- 9.15-10.00 - Ronald Planer - Stone tools and language: Open questions and promising leads
- 10.00-11.00 - Bo Li - Optical dating: Illuminating the origins of humanity
- 11.00-11.30 - Coffee break
- 11.30-12.30 - Sam Lin - Exploring the conditions for early stone tool innovation and transmission
- 12.30-2.00 - Lunch (Table reserved at Hemingway’s Café, Building 67, UOW)
- 2.00-3.00 - Alex Mackay - Reviewing rates and scales of technological change in southern Africa over the last 100 kyr.
- 3.00-3.30 - Coffee break
- 3.30-4.30 - Claudio Tennie - Beware of the copying illusion
- 7.00 – 8.30 - Dinner (TBA)
Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
- 9.00-10.00 - Thomas Graham - A framework for the evolution of external human symbols
- 10.00-10.30 - Coffee break
- 10.30-11.30 - Peter Hiscock - Does the hand axe speak to us of early hominid executive function?
- 11.30-12.30 - Lauren W Reed - What can homesign tell us about the emergence of language?
- 12.30-2.00 - Lunch (Table reserved at Hemingway’s Café, Building 67, UOW)
- 2.00-3.00 - Iain Davidson - Persisting cultural evolution
- 3.00-3.30 - Coffee break
- 3.30-4.30 - Panel discussion