An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years

• Ivan Colagè ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: i.colage@pusc.it (IC); francesco.derrico@u-bordeaux.fr (FD)

  Affiliation Faculty of Philosophy and DISF Research Centre, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6824-4956

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• Francesco d’Errico

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: i.colage@pusc.it (IC); francesco.derrico@u-bordeaux.fr (FD)

  Affiliations Université de Bordeaux, Department of Archeological Science, CNRS, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199 PACEA, Pessac, France, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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