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CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 85-96Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774309000055
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Stone tool-making is an ancient and prototypically human skill characterized by multiple levels of intentional organization. In a formal sense, it displays surprising similarities to the multi-level organization of human language. Recent functional brain imaging studies of stone tool-making similarly demonstrate overlap with neural circuits involved in language processing. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that language and tool-making share key requirements for the construction of hierarchically structured action sequences and evolved together in a mutually reinforcing way,
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