Collecting keepsakes may have helped autobiographical memory evolve in early humans, study suggests

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The study, recently published in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology, studied collections of various objects found at prehistoric sites across northern and central Israel.

Early humans may have been collecting keepsakes to help remember locations and events as far back as half a million years, a new Israeli study suggests.The study, recently published in the journal Evolutionary Anthropology, studied collections of various objects found at prehistoric sites across northern and central Israel.It was led by Dr. Yoav Ram of Tel Aviv University's School of Zoology, Prof. Ran Barkai and Dr. Ella Assaf of the Department of Archaeology, in collaboration with Prof. Liad Mudrik of the School of Psychological Sciences, and Dr.

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