Dynamic Monitoring Reveals Motor Task Characteristics in Prehistoric Technical Gestures.

ABSTRACT: Reconstructing ancient technical gestures associated with simple tool actions is crucial for understanding the co-evolution of the human forelimb and its associated control-related cognitive functions on the one hand, and of the human technological arsenal on the other hand. Although the topic of gesture is an old one in Paleolithic archaeology and in anthropology in general, very few studies have taken advantage of the new technologies from the science of kinematics in order to improve replicative experimental protocols. Recent work in paleoanthropology has shown the potential of monitored replicative experiments to reconstruct tool-use-related motions through the study of fossil bones, but so far comparatively little has been done to examine the dynamics of the tool itself. In this paper

SUBMITTER: Pfleging J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4540478 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature