Chapter 1 The Nature of Culture: Research Goals and New Directions

Chapter 2 Lessons from Tasmania – Cultural Performance Versus Cultural Capacity

Chapter 3 Culture as a Form of Nature

Chapter 4 The Evolution of Hominin Culture and Its Ancient Pre-hominin Foundations

Chapter 5 Scarce but Significant: The Limestone Component of the Acheulean Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Chapter 6 Technological Transformations Imply Cultural Transformations and Complex Cognition

Chapter 7 Neanderthal Utilitarian Equipment and Group Identity: The Social Context of Bifacial Tool Manufacture and Use

Chapter 8 Tracing Group Identity in Early Upper Paleolithic Stone and Organic Tools – Some Thoughts and Many Questions

Chapter 10 Stone Tools: Evidence of Something in Between Culture and Cumulative Culture?

Chapter 11 The Island Test for Cumulative Culture in the Paleolithic

Chapter 12 Mountaineering or Ratcheting? Stone Age Hunting Weapons as Proxy for the Evolution of Human Technological, Behavioral and Cognitive Flexibility