Changes in Raw Material Selection and Use at 400,000 Years <scp>bp</scp>: A Novel, Symbolic Relationship between Humans and Their World. Discussing Technological, Social and Cognitive Arguments
Journal: Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Year: 2021

Approximately 400,000 years bp , novel technological behaviours appeared in the archaeological record, attested by evidence of the exploitation of previously unused resources and the production of new tools. I have reviewed such innovations, and I discuss them in the frame of the anthropological, palaeoneurological, genetic and behavioural changes that appeared in the Middle Pleistocene. I propose that at this chronology humans started to see the resources as ‘other-than-human’ sentient co-dwell