ABSTRACT
The chapters in this section relate to the appearance of a cultural record of hominid activities. As Gowlett points out, it is at this point (c. 2 million years ago in Africa) that general comparative models of hominid socioecology come up against the highly specific evidence of direct behavioural traces-artefacts and scatters in their environmental contexts. This contrast in types of evidence and inferential procedures continues to create challenges for integrating social models with the archaeological record.
