{"id":23147,"date":"2015-01-13T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T01:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/?p=23147"},"modified":"2015-01-13T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T01:19:21","slug":"earliest-known-stone-tools-planted-the-seeds-of-communication-and-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/?p=23147","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Earliest Known Stone Tools Planted the Seeds of Communication and Language&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popular-archaeology.com\/issue\/winter-01012015\/article\/earliest-known-stone-tools-planted-the-seeds-of-communication-and-language\">This article<\/a> showed up today, nicely confirming one of the suggestions I made in my post two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In testing five different ways to convey Oldowan stone-knapping skills to more than 180 college students, the researchers found that the demonstration that used spoken communication &#8211; versus imitation, non-verbal presentations or gestures &#8211; yielded the highest volume and quality of flakes in the least amount of time and with the least waste. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;If someone is trying to learn a skill that has lots of subtlety to it, it helps to engage with a teacher and have them correct you,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;You learn so much faster when someone is telling you what to do.&#8217; . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;At some point they reached a threshold level of communication that allowed Acheulean hand axes to start being taught and spread around successfully and that almost certainly involved some sort of teaching and proto-type language,&#8217; Morgan said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article showed up today, nicely confirming one of the suggestions I made in my post two days ago. &#8220;Scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution. . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwSB8-61l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trogholm.panshin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}