S24B



S24B

Room 2.104

From tools to thoughts: Comparative approaches to technological and cultural behaviour / Des outils aux pensées : approches comparatives des comportements technologiques et culturels

Session organizers: Paula García-Medrano, Saray Pascual-Moliner

S24B, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 13:30, Room 2.104

9:00-9:20 - Sequential Tool Use and the Emergence of Technological Organisation: Experimental Insights into Early Cultural Evolution / Saray Pascual-Moliner, David Riba Cano, Paula García-Medrano

9:20-9:40 - Modelling the Cognitive Requirements of Early Hominin Tool Manufacture: Insights from Savanna Chimpanzees / Adrián Arroyo, Andreu Sánchez-Megías,  Justinn Renelies-Hamilton, Manuel Llana, Amanda Barciela,  Nadia Mirghani, Víctor López-Maroto, Lola Escudero-Martín, Flavia Piccolella, Papa I. Ndiaye, Jordi Galbany, Laia Dotras, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar

9:40-10:00 - Transmission Fidelity of Complex Knapping Skills: Comparing Imitation and Teaching in the Transmission of Laminar and Levallois Production Methods / Gloria Cattabriga, Vincent Niochet, Amèlia Bargalló, Marco Peresani, Krist Vaesen, Alexander Verpoorte, Marie Soressi

10:00-10:20 - The transmission of technical knowledge in the production of Late Chalcolithic pottery from Eastern Romania / Florica Mățău

10:20-10:40 - From Force to Precision: Cognitive and Biomechanical Insights into Acheulean Handaxe Production at Paisra, India / Deepika Bajpai, Manish Kumar Rai

10:40-11:00 - Discussion

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Core Reduction and Technological Variability at Gona, Ethiopia (2.6-1.5 Ma): A 3D Morphometric Study of Oldowan Assemblages / Ines Uribe-Alejos, Cristina Lemorini, Sileshi Semaw, Mohamed Sahnouni, Paula García-Medrano

11:50-12:10 - Diachronic Variability and Cognitive Implications of Large Cutting Tools in TD10, Gran Dolina / Paula García-Medrano, Andreu Ollé

12:10-12:30 - Inscribed Intentions: Traceological, Technological, and Experimental Approaches to Cultural Behaviour in Bone Tools of the Mandan / Yuxin Ning, Éva David

12:30-12:50 - Metrical Variability of Microlithic Assemblages in a Global Context: Implications for Defining Microblade / Sai Riteish Guduru, Pratik Pandey, Smriti Pathak

12:50-13:10 - Raw Material Preferences in the Microblade Production: A comparative Study of the Ken and Mandakini River Basins / Smriti Pathak, Pratik Pandey, Sai Riteish Guduru

13:10-13:30 - Final Discussion

13:30-14:30 - Lunch