Percussively flaked stone artefacts constitute a major source of evidence relating to hominin behavioural strategies and are, essentially, a product or byproduct of a past individual's decision to create a tool with respect to some broader goal. Moreover, it has long been noted that both differences and recurrent regularities exist within and between Palaeolithic stone artefact forms. Accordingly, archaeologists have frequently drawn links between form and functionality, with functional objectives and performance often being regarded consequential to a stone tool's morphological properties. Despite these factors, extensive reviews of the related concepts of form and function with respect to the Lower Palaeolithic remain surprisingly sparse. We attempt to redress this issue. First we stress the historical place of form-function concepts, and their role in establishing basic ideas that echo to this day. We then highlight methodological and conceptual progress in determining artefactual function in more recent years. Thereafter, we evaluate four specific issues that are of direct consequence for evaluating the ongoing relevance of form-function concepts, especially with respect to their relevance for understanding human evolution more generally. Our discussion highlights specifically how recent developments have been able to build on a long historical legacy, and demonstrate that direct, indirect, experimental, and evolutionary perspectives intersect in crucial ways, with each providing specific but essential insights for ongoing questions. We conclude by emphasising that our understanding of these issues and their interaction, has been, and will be, essential to accurately interpret the Lower Palaeolithic archaeological record, tool-form related behaviours of Lower Palaeolithic hominins, and their consequences for (and relationship to) wider questions of human evolution.

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下旧石器时代的形式和功能：历史，进展和持续的相关性。

敲打成薄片的石器物构成了有关人参行为策略的主要证据来源，从本质上讲，它是过去个人决定为某个更广泛的目标创建工具的决定的产物或副产物。而且，长期以来人们一直注意到，旧石器时代的石器物形式之内和之间都存在差异和循环规律。因此，考古学家经常在形式和功能之间绘制联系，而功能目标和性能通常被认为是石材工具形态特征的必然结果。尽管有这些因素，有关下旧石器时代形式和功能的相关概念的广泛评论仍然很少。我们试图解决此问题。首先，我们强调形式功能概念的历史地位，以及它们在建立与今天相呼应的基本观念中的作用。然后，我们将重点介绍近年来确定手工艺品功能的方法和概念上的进展。此后，我们评估了四个具体问题，这些问题对于评估形式功能概念的持续相关性，尤其是它们与更广泛地理解人类进化的相关性，具有直接的意义。我们的讨论特别强调了最近的发展如何能够建立在悠久的历史遗产基础上，并展示了直接，间接，实验和进化的观点以至关重要的方式相交，每种观点都为持续存在的问题提供了具体但必不可少的见解。最后，我们强调我们对这些问题及其相互作用的理解已经并且将会是，