A reassessment of early human stone technology from a Southeast Asian perspective

对早期石器技术的研究对于我们理解全球范围内的人类进化至关重要，它为我们了解最早的祖先的能力提供了洞见。目前的模型关注的是来自非洲和欧洲的证据，潜在地忽略了东亚在早期人类石器技术全球发展中的重要性。这影响了我们地区的国家和社区如何向世界解释自己，并减少了对这一主题进行创新研究的动力。该提案旨在建立东南亚和“西方”技术之间的详细比较，提供一个合适的框架，通过该框架可以更严格地评估当前的先入之见。

The study of early stone technology is crucial to our understanding of human evolution worldwide, providing insight into the capabilities of our earliest ancestors. Current models focus on the evidence from Africa and Europe, potentially marginalising the importance of eastern Asia in the global development of early human stone technology. This impacts how nations and communities in our region interpret themselves to the world and reduces the impetus of innovative research on this subject. The proposal aims to establish detailed comparisons between Southeast Asian and 'Western' technologies, providing a suitable framework through which current preconceptions can be more rigorously assessed.