Other Than Human Hybridity?

Abstract

AbstractThe capacity for species other than human to effect material hybridization is taken into account by the author through an examination of what it is to be cultural. Where, for example, chimpanzee communicative gestures and tool use are shown to be specific to particular groups, though also with aspects transferable to other groups for particular tasks, may such behaviour also evince forms of creolization or hybridity? There are no definite answers, though the author points to areas for research that may take such queries into consideration, and argues that looking to such concepts through this angle may benefit their broader application to early human material traces, such as that of the Châtelperronian technologies of Southwest Europe.