What is it about?

Explores recent findings from visual neuroscience that has consequences for understanding the symmetry of late Acheulean handaxes

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Why is it important?

Provides new data useful for interpreting Acheulean tools that has implications for understanding cognitive evolution

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Inspired by the need to bring the findings from neuroscience to the attention of archaeologists interested in the chronology of Acheulean tools.

Derek Hodgson
University of York

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This page is a summary of: Evolution of the visual cortex and the emergence of symmetry in the Acheulean techno-complex, Comptes Rendus Palevol, January 2009, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2008.10.009.
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