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List of works by Stephen J. Lycett

A 3D morphometric analysis of surface geometry in Levallois cores: patterns of stability and variability across regions and their implications

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A Multivariate and Phylogenetic Analysis of Blackfoot Biographic Art: Another Look at the Deadmond Robe

scholarly article by Stephen J. Lycett published 5 April 2017 in Plains Anthropologist

A comparison of catarrhine genetic distances with pelvic and cranial morphology: implications for determining hominin phylogeny

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A demographic model for Palaeolithic technological evolution: The case of East Asia and the Movius Line

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An experimental test of the accumulated copying error model of cultural mutation for Acheulean handaxe size

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Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals

Are Victoria West cores "proto-Levallois"? A phylogenetic assessment

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Are behavioral differences among wild chimpanzee communities genetic or cultural? An assessment using tool-use data and phylogenetic methods

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Are human hands and feet affected by climate? A test of Allen's rule

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Assessing the chronology of post-contact rock art on the northern Plains via multivariate statistical comparison with Blackfoot biographic art

scholarly article by Stephen J. Lycett published in March 2017

Assessing the relative impact of historical divergence and inter-group transmission on cultural patterns: a method from evolutionary ecology

scientific article published in April 2018

Brief communication: human cranial variation fits iterative founder effect model with African origin

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Built-in Misdirection: On the Difficulties of Learning to Knap

Cladistic analyses of behavioural variation in wild Pan troglodytes: exploring the chimpanzee culture hypothesis

scientific article published on 17 September 2009

Comparison of Handaxes from Bose Basin (China) and the Western Acheulean Indicates Convergence of Form, Not Cognitive Differences

scientific article published on April 19, 2012

Considering the role of time budgets on copy-error rates in material culture traditions: an experimental assessment

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Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: An experimental approach using “model artifacts”

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Correlations between genetic and behavioural dissimilarities in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) do not undermine the case for culture

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Cultural patterns within and outside of the post-contact Great Plains as revealed by parfleche characteristics: Implications for areal arrangements in artifactual data

scholarly article by Stephen J. Lycett published in December 2017

Developing a stable point: Evaluating the temporal and geographic consistency of Late Prehistoric unnotched triangular point functional design in Midwestern North America

scholarly article by Michelle Rae Bebber published in September 2017

Differences in Manufacturing Traditions and Assemblage-Level Patterns: the Origins of Cultural Differences in Archaeological Data

scholarly article by Kerstin Schillinger published in March 2016

Do homoiologies impede phylogenetic analyses of the fossil hominids? An assessment based on extant papionin craniodental morphology

scientific article published on 25 August 2005

Does phenotypic plasticity confound attempts to identify hominin fossil species? An assessment using extant Old World monkey craniodental data

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Dynamics of cultural transmission in Native Americans of the high Great Plains

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Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes

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From cultural traditions to cumulative culture: parameterizing the differences between human and nonhuman culture

scientific article published on 10 June 2014

Global geometric morphometric analyses of the human pelvis reveal substantial neutral population history effects, even across sexes

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement. LAMBROS MALAFOURIS. 2013. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xv + 304 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN-978-0-262-01919-4

Human Pelvis and Long Bones Reveal Differential Preservation of Ancient Population History and Migration Out of Africa

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Is the Soanian techno-complex a Mode 1 or Mode 3 phenomenon? A morphometric assessment

Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans

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Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’

Levallois economics: an examination of ‘waste’ production in experimentally produced Levallois reduction sequences

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Levallois lessons: the challenge of integrating mathematical models, quantitative experiments and the archaeological record

scholarly article by Stephen J. Lycett published in August 2013

Levallois: Potential Implications for Learning and Cultural Transmission Capacities

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Looking at handaxes from another angle: Assessing the ergonomic and functional importance of edge form in Acheulean bifaces

scholarly article by Alastair J.M. Key published in December 2016

On questions surrounding the Acheulean ‘tradition’

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Phylogenetic analyses of behavior support existence of culture among wild chimpanzees

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Random copying, frequency-dependent copying and culture change

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Reviews

The Movius Line controversy: the state of the debate

scholarly article by Stephen J. Lycett published in December 2010

The impact of imitative versus emulative learning mechanisms on artifactual variation: implications for the evolution of material culture

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The importance of history in definitions of culture: Implications from phylogenetic approaches to the study of social learning in chimpanzees

scientific article published on August 2010

The interaction of neutral evolutionary processes with climatically-driven adaptive changes in the 3D shape of the human os coxae

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Transmission of biology and culture among post-contact Native Americans on the western Great Plains

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Understanding ancient hominin dispersals using artefactual data: a phylogeographic analysis of Acheulean handaxes

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Understanding the comparative catarrhine context of human pelvic form: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

Why Levallois? A Morphometric Comparison of Experimental ‘Preferential’ Levallois Flakes versus Debitage Flakes

scientific article published on January 23, 2012

Why is there a lack of Mode 3 Levallois technologies in East Asia? A phylogenetic test of the Movius–Schick hypothesis

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