Event Details
Thursday, Dec 11, 2014
Hands, Words, and Brains: What Cognitive Archaeology Can Teach Us
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Palm Beach County Main Library, 3650 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach, 33406
Description: Lana Ruck's research focuses on Lower Paleolithic archaeology, which dates to roughly 2.6 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Stone tools are the primary archaeological materials that preserve from this time, and through much study, we have learned that stone tool-making was an important step towards "becoming human" for our ancestors.
Cognition, language, and technology are thought of as "uniquely human," but many of our ancestors thought and spoke like us too! She will be talking about how primitive stone tool-making relates to traits like handedness and language, and discuss how and why these behaviors evolved together over millions of years.
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