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Tools
International archaeological consortia coordinating global datasets.
Advanced Bayesian stratigraphic modeling applied uniformly across sites.
High-precision dating techniques (improved uranium-series, luminescence,
radiocarbon calibration curves).
Global GIS cultural mapping integrating artifact types, locations, and
chronologies.
Expected Outcome
A unified global synthesis of symbolic artifact distributions.
A clear answer: was there a synchronous ignition (~70kya, everywhere) or a
mosaic of independent origins?
Likely Scenario
Current evidence already suggests that symbolic behaviors were unstable
before 70kya and stable afterward.
Phase III synthesis will almost certainly reinforce that synchrony holds
globally, with a cultural explosion in Africa and the Levant rapidly echoed
in Eurasia.
Multi-origin hypotheses will struggle to explain the lockstep timing.
Neuroscience
What to Do
1. Show whether minimal genetic regulatory changes can reliably
simulate symbolic cognition.
Move from plausibility (Phase I) and cross-validation (Phase II) to reliable,
repeatable demonstration.
Neural models and organoid experiments must show that a small set of
regulatory tweaks is sufficient to trigger recursion, symbolic storage, and
abstract reasoning.