SapienCE Publications

Antunes, N., Schiefenhövel, W., d’Errico, F., Banks, W. & Vanhaeren, M. Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239359

Beller, S., Bender, A. & Jordan, F. Editors’ review and introduction: The cultural evolution of cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science 12(2): 644-653. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12498?af=R

Bender, A. The sense of obligation is culturally modulated. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43: 16-17.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002371

Bender, A. What early sapience cognition can teach us: Untangling cultural influences on human cognition across time. Frontiers in Psychology 11: 99. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7025490/

Bender, A. What is causal cognition? Frontiers in Psychology 11: 3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32038436/

Bender, A., Teige-Mocigemba, S., Rothe-Wulf, A., Seel, M. & Beller, S. Being in front is good—but where is in front? Preferences for spatial referencing affect evaluation. Cognitive Science 44: e12840. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12840

Bradfield, J., Lombard, M., Reynard, J. & Wurz, S. Further evidence for bow hunting and its implications more than 60 000 years ago: results of a use-trace analysis of the bone point from Klasies River Main site, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 236: 106295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106295

Brenner, M., Ryano, K. & Wurz, S. Coastal Adaptation at Klasies River main site during MIS 5c/d (93 – 110 000 years ago) from a southern Cape Perspective. Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 1-2810.1080/15564894.2020.1774444 https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2020.1774444

d’Errico, F., Pitarch Marti, A., Le Vraux, A., Shipton, C., Ndiema, E., Goldstein, S. A., Petraglia, M. & Boivin, N. Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution Vol 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102737

Discamps, E., Henshilwood, C. & Van Niekerk, K. L. Large mammal exploitation during the c. 14-11 ka Oakhurst techno-complex at Klipdrift Cave, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 116: 1-7. https://www.sajs.co.za/article/view/6754

Li, Z. Doyon, L., Fang, H., Ledevin, R., Queffelec, A., Raguin, E. & d'Errico, F. A Palaeolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, China. PLOS ONE 15(6): e0233370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233370

Reynard, J. & Wurz, S. 2020. Palaeoenvironmental trends from MIS 5e-4 at Klasies River main site.  Quaternary Science Reviews. 237, 106301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106301

Rusch, N. & Wurz, S. The Doring River bullroarers rock painting: continuities in sound and rainmaking. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33: 102511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102511

Simon, M. H., Babin, D. P., Goldstein, S. L., Cai, M. Y., Liu, T., Han, X., Haws, A. A., Johns, M., Lear, C. & Hemming, S. R. Sequential extraction procedure to obtain the composition of terrigenous detritus in marine sediments. MethodsX 7: 100888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.100888

Simon, M. H., Babin, D., Goldstein, S. L.., Cai, M. Y., Liu, T., Han, X., Haws, A. A., Johns, M., Lear, C. H. & Hemming, S. R. Development of a protocol to obtain the composition of terrigenous detritus in marine sediments -a pilot study from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 361. Chemical Geology 535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119449

Stewart, M., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P.S., Janulis, K., Candy, I., Armitage, S.J., Ryves, D.B., Louys, J., Duval, M., Price, G.J., Cuthbertson, P., Bernal, M.A., Drake, N.A., Alsharekh, A.M., Zahrani, B., Al-Omari, A., Roberts, P., Groucutt, H.S. & Petraglia, M.D. Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances 6, 38, eaba8940. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/38/eaba8940

Wadley, L., Backwell, L., d'Errico, F. & Sievers, C. Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago. Science 367(6473): 87-91. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/87

Zilhão, J., Angelucci, D., Araujo Igregia, M., Arnold, L., Badal, E., Callapez, P., Cardoso, J. L., d'Errico, F. & Daura, J. 2020 Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers. Science 367.(6485). https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6485/eaaz7943

Armitage, S. J., Krishna, A., Parker, L. E. & King, G. E. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of heat retainer hearths from the Sahara: Insights into signal accumulation and measurement. Quaternary Geochronology 49:249-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2018.03.004

Bender, A. The distinct roles of theory of mind and shared intentionality for the emergence of culture. Current Anthropology 60: 182-183. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/702470#_d118175e1 

Bender, A. The value of diversity in cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science 11: 853-863. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12464

Bender, A. & Beller, S. The cultural fabric of human causal cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science 14: 922-940. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619863055

Bentsen, S. E. & Wurz, S. J. D. Color Me Heated? A Comparison of Potential Methods to Quantify Color Change in Thermally-Altered Rocks. Journal of Field Archaeology 44: 215-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1591092

Brenner, M. J. & Wurz, S. J. D. A high-resolution perspective on MIS 5c-d lithic assemblages from Klasies River main site Cave 1. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26: 1-33. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19301919

Dayet, L., Faivre, J.-P., Le Bourdonnec, F.X., Discamps, E. Royer, A., Claud, E., Lahaye, C., Cantin, N., Tartar, E., Queffelec, A., Gravina, B., Turq, A., d'Errico, F. Manganese and iron oxide use at Combe-Grenal (Dordogne, France): A proxy for cultural change in Neanderthal communities. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 25: 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.03.027

Kumbani, J., Bradfield, J., Rusch, N. & Wurz, S. J. D. A functional investigation of southern Cape Later Stone Age artefacts resembling aerophones. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24: 693-711.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.021

Larbey, C., Mentzer, S., Ligouis, B., Wurz, S. J. D. & Jones, M. Cooked starchy food in hearths ca. 120 kya and 65 kya (MIS 5e and MIS 4) from Klasies River Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 131: 210-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.015

Li, Z., Doyon, L. Li, H., Wang, Q., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Q. & d'Errico, F. Engraved bones from the archaic hominin site of Lingjing, Henan Province. Antiquity 93: 886-900. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.81

Meijer, H.,  d'Errico, F., Queffelec, A., Kurniawan, I., Setiabudi, E., Sutisna, I.,  Brumm, A. & Van Den Bergh, G. D. Characterization of bone surface modifications on an Early to Middle Pleistocene bird assemblage from Mata Menge (Flores, Indonesia) using multifocus and confocal microscopy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 529: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.025

Mellet, E., Salagnon, M., Majkic, A., Cremona, S., Joliot, M., Mazoyer, B., Tzourio Mazoyer, N. & d’Errico F. Paleolithic engravings recruit the ventral route in a similar way than objects’ pictures. Royal Society Open Science 6. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190086

Pitarch Marti, A., d'Errico, F., Turq, A., Lebraud, E., Discamps, E. & Gravina, B. Provenance, modification and use of manganese-rich rocks at Le Moustier (Dordogne, France). PLOS ONE 14: E0218568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218568

Ryano, K. P., Van Niekerk, K. L., Wurz, S. J. D. & Henshilwood, C. Shellfish exploitation during the Oakhurst at Klipdrift Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 115: 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5578 

Vanhaeren, M., Wadley, L. & d'Errico, F. Variability in Still Bay symbolic traditions: the marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 27: 101893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101893

Wilke, F., Bender, A. & Beller, S. Flexibility in adopting relative frames of reference in dorsal and lateral settings. The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. Section A, Human experimental psychology 72: 2393-2407. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819841310

Backwell, L., Bradfield, J., Carlson, K. J., Jashashvili, T., Wadley, L. & d'Errico, F. The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave. Antiquity 362: 289 – 303.  https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.11 

Beller, S., Bender, A., Chrisomalis, S., Jordan, F. M., Overmann, K. A., Saxe, G. B & Schlimm, D. The Cultural Challenge in Mathematical Cognition. Journal of Numerical Cognition 4(2): 448 – 463. https://jnc.psychopen.eu/article/view/137/html

Bender, A., Beller, S. & Klauer, K. C. Gender congruency from a neutral point of view: The roles of gender classes and conceptual connotations. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition 44- 10: 1580 – 1608. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29389194

Bender, A., Rothe-Wulf, A. & Beller, S. Variability in the alignment of number and space across languages and tasks. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 1 – 19. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01724/full

Cunningham, A. C., Murray, A. S., Armitage, S. J. & Autzen, M. High-precision natural dose rate estimates through beta counting.  Radiation Measurements 120: 209-214. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448717308685

d'Errico, F. & Colagé, I. Cultural Exaptation, Cultural Neural Reuse: A mechanism for the emergence of modern culture and behaviour. Biological Theory 13- 4: 213 – 227 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-018-0306-x

d'Errico, F., Doyon, L., Colagé, I., Queffelec, A., Le Vraux, E., Giacobini, G., Vandermeersch, B. & Maureille, B. From number sense to number symbols. An archaeological perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal B: Biological Sciences 373- 1740: 1 - 10. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2016.0518

Douze, K., Delagnes, A., Wurz, S. & Henshilwood, C. S. The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa. PLoS ONE 13- 11: 1 – 24. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206238

Henshilwood, C. S., d'Errico, F., van Niekerk, K. L., Dayet, L., Queffelec, A. & Pollarolo, L. An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Nature 562: 115 – 118. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0514-3

Hillestad Nel, T., Wurz, S. & Henshilwood, C. S. Small mammals from Marine Isotope Stage 5 at Klasies River, South Africa - Reconstructing the local palaeoenvironment. Quaternary International 471: 6 – 20. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618217300848

Novello, A., Bamford, M. K., van Wijk, Y. & Wurz, S. Phytoliths in modern plants and soils from Klasies River, Cape Region (South Africa). Quaternary International 464: 440 – 459. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618217307152

Reynard, J. P. & Henshilwood, C. S. Using trampling modification to infer occupational intensity during the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa. African Archaeological Review 35: 1 – 19. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10437-018-9286-2

Reynard, J. P. & Henshilwood, C. S. Environment versus behaviour: Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses of fauna from the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Quaternary International 500: 159-171. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618218305743

Wurz, S., Bentsen, S. E., Reynard, J. P., van Pletzen-Vos, L., Brenner, M., Mentzer, S., Pickering, R. & Green, H. Connections, culture and environments around 100 000 years ago at Klasies River main site. Quaternary International 495: 102 – 115. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618217314374