ABSTRACT
This evolution is not only visible in technology but also in various more fundamental though less spectacular behavioural capacities. The location of palaeolithic sites in the landscape demonstrates a capacity for prediction with regard to the sources of raw materials that also takes into account the means of obtaining food supplies. Hunting methods bear witness to a capacity for observation and intelligence as well as a sound knowledge of the habits of prey. Inter-individual organization also displays a capacity for social co-ordination, and hence for the transmission of-and respect for-its conceptualized codification. All these elements appear in the earliest Palaeolithic, several hundred thousand years ago. Their evolution is extremely slow and virtually no breaks can be observed in this continuity.
