ABSTRACT The overall goal of this paper is to derive a set of generalizations that might characterize children as tool makers/users in the earliest human societies. These generalizations will be sought from the collective wisdom of four distinct bodies of scholarship: lithic archaeology; juvenile chimps as novice tool users; recent laboratory work in human infant and child cognition, focused on objects becoming tools and; the ethnographic study of children learning their community’s tool-kit. The presumption is that this collective wisdom will yield greater insight into children’s development as tool producers and users than has been available to scholars operating within narrower disciplinary limits.

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Homo Faber Juvenalis：关于作为工具制造者/使用者的儿童的多学科调查

摘要 本文的总体目标是得出一组概括，这些概括可能将儿童描述为最早的人类社会中的工具制造者/使用者。将从四个不同学术机构的集体智慧中寻求这些概括：石器考古学；少年黑猩猩作为新手工具用户；最近在人类婴儿和儿童认知方面的实验室工作，重点是物体成为工具和；儿童学习社区工具包的民族志研究。假设是，与在较窄学科范围内运作的学者相比，这种集体智慧将更深入地了解儿童作为工具生产者和使用者的发展。