Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification

Project Information

QUANTA

Grant agreement ID: 951388

DOI 10.3030/951388

EC signature date 20 July 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 9 900 025,00

EU contribution € 9 900 025,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
Norway

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

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

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

Conference proceedings (2)

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

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