ABSTRACT
As originally conceived, this chapter aimed to examine the problems of relating technical and social information in the archaeology of earlier hominids, and specifically to examine the number of individual cultural traits that could be identified in early material. It has been widened to take a broader look at social models in human evolution, but I try to follow the same theme: how many lines of evidence do we have about early hominids that can be related as knowledge? Scrutiny of these may cast light on relationships between social structure and the more directly cultural (archaeological) evidence.
