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ANTIQUITY
卷 92, 期 362, 页码 304-319出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.35
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Great Britain; Palaeolithic; handaxes; symmetry; pleasure-reward
Bilateral symmetry in handaxes has significant implications for hominin cognitive and socio-behavioural evolution. Here the authors show that high levels of symmetry occur in the British Late Middle Pleistocene Acheulean, which they consider to be a deliberate, socially mediated act. Furthermore, they argue that lithic technology in general, and handaxes in particular, were part of a pleasure-reward system linked to dopamine-releasing neurons in the brain. Making handaxes made Acheulean hominins happy, and one particularly pleasing property was symmetry.
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