Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification

An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years

Author(s): Ivan Colagè, Francesco d’Errico
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0325059, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0325059

Austro-Asiatic Numeration

Author(s): Mamta Kumari
Published in: International Journal of Social Science And Human Research, Issue 6(7), 2023, Page(s) 4453-4464, ISSN 2644-0679
Publisher: IJSSHR Journal
DOI: 10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i7-75

Identification of chemically altered cut marks: an experimental approach from Geometrics Morphometrics

Author(s): David Rodríguez de la Fuente, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Darío Herranz-Rodrigo, Jose Yravedra, Antonio Pineda
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02091-5

Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic

Author(s): Francesco d’Errico, Jack Baker, Daniel Pereira, Esteban Álvarez-Fernández, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Solange Rigaud
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0323148, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323148

Evidence for large land snail cooking and consumption at Border Cave c. 170-70 ka ago. Implications for the evolution of human diet and social behaviour

Author(s): Marine Wojcieszak, Luncinda Backwell, Francesco d'Errico, Lyn Wadley
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 306, 2023, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108030

Tooth in the spotlight: exploring the integration of archaeological and genetic data to build multidisciplinary narratives of the Past

Author(s): Francesco D’ERRICO, Luc DOYON, Joao ZILHÃO, Jack BAKER
Published in: Comptes Rendus Palevol, Issue 23, 2024, Page(s) 31-43, ISSN 1777-571X
Publisher: Universidade de Lisboa
DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a2

Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago

Author(s): Fa-Gang Wang, Shi-Xia Yang, Jun-Yi Ge, Andreu Ollé, Ke-Liang Zhao, Jian-Ping Yue, Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Katerina Douka, Ying Guan, Wen-Yan Li, Hai-Yong Yang, Lian-Qiang Liu, Fei Xie, Zheng-Tang Guo, Ri-Xiang Zhu, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d’Errico & Michael Petraglia
Published in: Nature, Issue 603, 2022, Page(s) 284-289, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04445-2

A vegetation record based on charcoal analysis from Border Cave, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, ~ 227 000 to ~ 44 000 years ago

Author(s): Sandra Lennox, Lucinda Backwell, Francesco d'Errico, Lyn Wadley
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 293, 2022, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107676

Deep Learning-Based Computer Vision Is Not Yet the Answer to Taphonomic Equifinality in Bone Surface Modifications

Author(s): Lloyd Austin Courtenay, Nicolas Vanderesse, Luc Doyon, Antoine Souron
Published in: Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 388-411, ISSN 2514-8362
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.145

A 39,600-year-old leather punch board from Canyars, Gavà, Spain

Author(s): Luc Doyon, Thomas Faure, Montserrat Sanz, Joan Daura, Laura Cassard, Francesco d'Errico
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9(15), 2023, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg0834

Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior

Author(s): Lucinda Backwell, Lyn Wadley, Francesco d'Errico, William E. Banks, Paloma de la Peña, Dominic Stratford, Christine Sievers, Ghilrean Laue, Bawinile Vilane, Jamie Clark, Chantal Tribolo, Amélie Beaudet, Tea Jashashvili, Kristian J. Carlson, Sandra Lennox, Irene Esteban, Guilhem Mauran
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 291, 2022, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107597

Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago

Author(s): Ignacio de la Torre, Luc Doyon, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Rafael Mora, Ipyana Mwakyoma, Jackson K. Njau, Renata F. Peters, Angeliki Theodoropoulou, Francesco d’Errico
Published in: Nature, Issue 640, 2025, Page(s) 130-134, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08652-5

Realism and the point at infinity: The end of the line?

Author(s): Parkinson-Coombs, Oisin; Núnez, Rafael
Published in: Synthese, Issue 1/18, 2023, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04228-w

Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

Author(s): Lila Geis, Francesco d’Errico, Fiona M. Jordan, Michel Brenet, Alain Queffelec
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 18, 2023, Page(s) e0291552, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291552

Loss of Colexification of ‘hand’ and‘five’ in Austronesian Languages

Author(s): Russell Barlow
Published in: Oceanic Linguistics, Issue Volume 64, Number 1, June 2025, 2025, Page(s) 145–200, ISSN 1527-9421
Publisher: Project MUSE
DOI: 10.1353/ol.2025.a960255

Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study

Author(s): M Salagnon, F d’Errico, S Rigaud, E Mellet
Published in: Brain Structure and Function, Issue 229, 2024, Page(s) 1103-1120, ISSN 1863-2661
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-024-02786-4

A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate

Author(s): João Zilhão, Francesco d’Errico, William E. Banks, Nicolas Teyssandier
Published in: Quaternary Environments and Humans, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 100037, ISSN 2950-2365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100037

Chapitre 23. Répartition spatiale des graviers lustrés

Author(s): Lila Geis, Francesco d’Errico, Alain Queffelec
Published in: Paléo, Issue Hors-série, 2025, Page(s) 488-491, ISSN 1145-3370
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/14u08

New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body

Author(s): Francesco d'Errico, Karen Loise van Niekerk, Lila Geis, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood
Published in: Journal of Human Evolution, Issue 184, 2024, Page(s) 103438, ISSN 0047-2484
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103438

An open letter to evolutionary and human sciences; Statistics has moved on and so should we. A proposal for more transparent research, and some notes on p < 0.003

Author(s): Lloyd A. Courtenay
Published in: Quaternary Environments and Humans, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 100041, ISSN 2950-2365
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100041

First identification of an evolving Middle Stone Age ochre culture at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia

Author(s): Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Martine Regert, Francesco d’Errico
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39957-y

Chapitre 17. Les graviers lustrés : analyse et bilan interprétatif

Author(s): Lila Geis, Francesco d’Errico, Alain Queffelec
Published in: Paléo, Issue Hors-série, 2025, Page(s) 403-415, ISSN 1145-3370
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/14u02

Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited

Author(s): Jack Baker, Solange Rigaud, Marian Vanhaeren, Francesco d'Errico
Published in: PALEO, Issue 32, 2022, Page(s) 40-72, ISSN 2101-0420
Publisher: SAMRA
DOI: 10.4000/paleo.7180

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave

Author(s): Elizabeth C. Velliky, Francesco d’Errico, Karen L. van Niekerk, Christopher S. Henshilwood
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads2797

Lithic technological and spatial analysis of the final Pleistocene at Border Cave, South Africa

Author(s): Paloma de la Peña, Fernando Colino, Francesco d'Errico, Lyn Wadley, William E. Banks, Dominic Stratford, Lucinda Backwell
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 296, 2022, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107802

Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Author(s): Irene Esteban, Dominic Stratford, Christine Sievers, Paloma de la Peña, Guilhem Mauran, Lucinda Backwell, Francesco d'Errico, Lyn Wadley
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 300, 2023, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107898

Papuan-Austronesian contact and the spread of numeral systems in Melanesia

Author(s): Russell Barlow
Published in: Diachronica, Issue 40(3), 2023, Page(s) 287-340, ISSN 0176-4225
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/dia.22005.bar

Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification

Author(s): Lloyd Austin Courtenay, Francesco d’Errico, Rafael Núñez, Damián E. Blasi
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02286-4

A 36,200 year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France

Author(s): Francesco d'Errico, Serge David, Hélène Coqueugniot, Christian Meister, Ewa Dutkiewicz, Romain Pigeaud, Luca Sitzia, Didier Cailhol, Mathieu Bosq, Christophe Griggo, Alain Queffelec, Luc Doyon
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39897-7

The roots of creativity: investigating in cultural transmission

Author(s): Ivan Colagé, Francesco d'Errico
Published in: Acta Philosophica, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 95-116, ISSN 1121-2179
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202300701006

Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress

Author(s): Ian Gilligan, Francesco d’Errico, Luc Doyon, Wei Wang, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp2887

Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe

Author(s): Jack Baker, Solange Rigaud, Daniel Pereira, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Francesco d’Errico
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 431-444, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01803-6

Ways of counting in Micronesia

Author(s): Andrea Bender; Sieghard Beller
Published in: Historia Mathematica, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 40-72, ISSN 0315-0860
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.002

Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China

Author(s): Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, Han Wang, Wu-Gan Luo, Yue Zhang, Emeline Raguin, Ke-Liang Zhao, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Ya-Mei Hou, Wei-Wen Huang, Yi-Ren Wang, Jin-Ming Shi, Bao-Yin Yuan, Andreu Ollé, Alain Queffelec, Li-Ping Zhou, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d’Errico, Michael Petraglia
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 552-563, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02294-4

Neural correlates of perceiving and interpreting engraved prehistoric patterns as human production: Effect of archaeological expertise

Author(s): Mathilde Salagnon; Sandrine Cremona; Marc Joliot; Francesco d’Errico; Emmanuel Mellet
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271732

The perception of quantity ain't number: Missing the primacy of symbolic reference

Author(s): Rafael E. Núñez, Francesco d'Errico, Russell D. Gray, & Andrea Bender
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Issue 44, 2021, Page(s) 44-46, ISSN 1469-1825
Publisher: Cambridge U Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21001023

Cueva de Ardales: un caso de estudio para comprender el papel simbólico de las cuevas en el Paleolítico medio

Author(s): Africa Pitarch Martí, Francesco d'Errico, João Zilhão
Published in: Takurunna, Issue 10/11, 2021, Page(s) 219-241, ISSN 2253-6191
Publisher: UNIARQ

PRACTICE MAKES HUMAN:

Author(s): Jean-Charles Pelland, Jasmin Trächtler, Helene Love
Published in: Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, VolumeII, 2024, Page(s) 183-202, ISBN 978-1-83999-141-7
Publisher: Anthem Press
DOI: 10.2307/jj.18979314.12

Border Cave, South Africa

Author(s): Lucinda Backwell, Francesco d’Errico, Paloma de la Peña, Lyn Wadley
Published in: Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa, 2023, Page(s) 1297-1310, ISBN 978-3-031-20289-6
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_84

Expectation, Representation, and Enactivism

Author(s): Jean-Charles Pelland
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 45, 2023, Page(s) 2888-2894, ISSN 1069-7977
Publisher: eScholarship

Does Language Stabilize Quantity Representations in Vision Transformers?

Author(s): Pamela Riviere, Oisín Parkinson-Coombs, Cameron Jones, Sean Trott
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Volume 47, 2025, Page(s) 2544-2551
Publisher: eScholarship University of California

Annotating and Inferring Compositional Structures in Numeral Systems Across Languages

Author(s): Arne Rubehn, Christoph Rzymski, Luca Ciucci, Katja Bocklage, Alžběta Kučerová, David Snee, Abishek Stephen, Kellen Parker Van Dam, Johann-Mattis List
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, 2025, Page(s) 29-42, ISBN 979-8-89176-281-7
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.sigtyp-1.4

Methodological issues in the cross-disciplinary study of numerical cognition

Author(s): Pelland, J., Greenhill, S. J, Parkinson-Coombs, O., & Mendoza Straffon, L.
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 45, 2023, Page(s) 35
Publisher: eScholarship University of California

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