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tools and evolution  

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  • There is an inherent problem within African Acheulian and Middle Stone Age assemblages reearch: how to recognize culture and ethnicity and the period in which hominins evolved the cognitive ability to invent social solutions to perceived or real ecological and functional challenges. There also exists the challenge of establishing the relationships between the stone tool assemblages and the cultures of which the knappers were a part. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Tools and Evolution]

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