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What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? an origin of stone knapping via the emulation of mother nature

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datacite.subject.sdg04:Educação de Qualidade
datacite.subject.sdg09:Indústria, Inovação e Infraestruturas
datacite.subject.sdg11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis
dc.contributor.authorEren, Metin I.
dc.contributor.authorLycett, Stephen J.
dc.contributor.authorBebber, Michelle R.
dc.contributor.authorKey, Alastair
dc.contributor.authorBuchanan, Briggs
dc.contributor.authorFinestone, Emma
dc.contributor.authorBenson, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorGürbüz, Rebecca Biermann
dc.contributor.authorCebeiro, Adela
dc.contributor.authorGarba, Roman
dc.contributor.authorGrunow, Anne
dc.contributor.authorLovejoy, C. Owen
dc.contributor.authorMacDonald, Danielle
dc.contributor.authorMaletic, Erica
dc.contributor.authorMiller, G. Logan
dc.contributor.authorOrtiz, Joseph D.
dc.contributor.authorPaige, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorPargeter, Justin
dc.contributor.authorProffitt, Tomos
dc.contributor.authorRaghanti, Mary Ann
dc.contributor.authorRiley, Teal
dc.contributor.authorRose, Jeffrey Ian
dc.contributor.authorSinger, David M.
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Robert S.
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-22T16:12:00Z
dc.date.available2026-05-22T16:12:00Z
dc.date.issued2025-03-15
dc.description.abstractThe use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium-to-large-sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative) process that combined several innovative stages. Here, we propose that one of these stages was the hominin use of ‘naturaliths,’ which we define as naturally produced sharp stone fragments that could be used as cutting tools. Based on a review of the literature and our own research, we first suggest that the ‘typical’ view, namely that sharp-edged stones are seldom produced by nonprimate processes, is likely incorrect. Instead, naturaliths can be, and are being, endlessly produced in a wide range of settings and thus may occur on the landscape in far greater numbers than archaeologists currently understand or acknowledge. We then explore the potential role this ‘naturalith prevalence’ may have played in the origin of hominin stone knapping. Our hypothesis suggests that the origin of knapping was not a ‘Eureka!’ moment whereby hominins first made a sharp flake by intention or by accident and then sought something to cut, but instead was an emulative process by hominins aiming to reproduce the sharp tools furnished by mother nature and already in demand. We conclude with a discussion of several corollaries our proposal prompts, and several avenues of future research that can support or question our proposal.eng
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/arcm.13075
dc.identifier.eissn1475-4754
dc.identifier.issn0003-813X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/29024
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofArchaeometry
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleWhat can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? an origin of stone knapping via the emulation of mother natureeng
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.titleArchaeometry
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameProffitt
person.familyNameRose
person.givenNameTomos
person.givenNameJeffrey Ian
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1428-2013
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