Parra, I.; Morales, L.; Mar, J.; Carbonell, E. Experimental One-Sided Choppers Relating Neuromuscular Human Abilities to Heart Rates and Technological Evolution. Humans2023, 3, 193-202.
Parra, I.; Morales, L.; Mar, J.; Carbonell, E. Experimental One-Sided Choppers Relating Neuromuscular Human Abilities to Heart Rates and Technological Evolution. Humans 2023, 3, 193-202.
Parra, I.; Morales, L.; Mar, J.; Carbonell, E. Experimental One-Sided Choppers Relating Neuromuscular Human Abilities to Heart Rates and Technological Evolution. Humans2023, 3, 193-202.
Parra, I.; Morales, L.; Mar, J.; Carbonell, E. Experimental One-Sided Choppers Relating Neuromuscular Human Abilities to Heart Rates and Technological Evolution. Humans 2023, 3, 193-202.
Abstract
The length of time it takes to experimentally make one-sided choppers, as found in the fossil record, bears a linear relationship to the knapping process of fabricating them. In addition, this temporal frame appears to be related to human heart rates measured as beats per minute, which act as a physiological metronome. We achieved these observations assuming that any paleolithic one-sided chopper has the information needed to estimate quantitatively the number of strikes on it. The experimental data allow us to establish the total timing needed for the standard fabricating of any one-sided chopper. We discuss issues derived from these experimental results, showing the evolution of human neurological abilities from 2.4 million years ago to the Modern period through the duration of time needed for making one chopper to that needed to play a 19th-century music score on a piano. Given that the neuronal and physiological distance between both actions differs by a factor of 6, we propose the concept of “technome” to measure human evolution by using methodological homogeneous metrics applied to these two human technologic objects, the chopper and the piano.
Keywords
hominins; chopper; human evolution; heart rate; piano playing; technome
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Archaeology
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