The researchers, led by Dr Andrew Wilson, an expert in perception, action and embodied cognition at Leeds Beckett, alongside Associate Professor Qin Zhu from the University of Wyoming, Professor Lawrence Barham and Professor Ian Stanistreet from the University of Liverpool, and Professor Geoffrey Bingham from Indiana University,
analysed a sample of 55 spheroids (ball - shaped stone objects
found in African
archaeological sites) from the Cave of Hearths in the Makapan Valley in South Africa.
Dr John Stewart, Associate Professor in Paleoecology and Environmental Change at Bournemouth University (BU), is part of a team which
analysed data on rabbit bone remains,
found in
archaeological excavations of caves in the Iberian Peninsula.